Aimee Levitt

Writer

Staff writer for the Chicago Reader, and formerly for the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, Levitt writes about “books, hipsters, dogs, the Human Cannonball, Napoleon enthusiasts, the afterlife, and many, many other things.”

Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:01
The Mysterious Process of Human Learning That Machines Can’t Copy Games reveal a simple yet powerful principle about how people coordinate without much information
Tue, 08/04/2026 - 12:02
The premise of AI large language models (LLMs) is that any problem can be solved by vacuuming up as much information as possible, running it through probability models, and performing complex calculations to make predictions and come up with the…
How to Turn Old Ideas Into Creative Solutions to Modern Problems Considering things from the past for future innovation
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:01
It’s a cliche that the most innovative ideas come in a flash of inspiration: Archimedes in his bathtub, Newton and the apple. But anyone whose job depends on coming up with new ideas knows that’s not entirely true, mostly because there’s no such…