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Amateur Polymath

Sarp Gürakan

Amateur Polymath is a blog on technology, media, and philosophy.

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C Half Sharp: on Microtonal Guitars

PS: This article is about music. If you would like to read the article with the accompaniment of the music it discusses, here is my Youtube playlist: Microtonality by Amateur Polymath

Many of my articles (as well as the subjects of my mast...

2 years ago
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How to Delete Your Instagram in Only 30 Days

pc: @markvomit

Compulsive social media usage is now considered a behavioral addiction, similar to gambling (HBR). I have felt this addiction as well, but found comfort in knowing I could delete my account if it ever got too much. Last year...

2 years ago
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Turing's Legacy, Sunak's Bid for AI

Earlier this month, Rishi Sunak opened the highly publicized AI Safety Summit, which has been called the “first ever global AI regulation summit". The event caught sizable media coverage, and attracted some of the largest state and private...

3 years ago
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Post-Hiatus

I started Amateur Polymath in January 2023, and I wrote 16 articles in the last 9 months. After an intellectually stunted period circa 2021 (otherwise known as a depression), this blog felt like a chance to reconnect with a part of my brain...

3 years ago
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There is a Village, Far Away

There is a village, far away

That is our village

Even if we don’t go, even if we don’t visit it

That is our village

When I was sick and had a fever as a child, my dad would sing this song to me, carrying me on his shoulders in our dark...

3 years ago
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