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I saw the traveling _Gods in Color_ exhibit when it came to San Francisco, which is where some or all of the images in this article come from. I don't think the exhibit glossed ove…

Barbed wire worked well for human soldiers in WWI. It was part of a security system that also included trenches, artillery, machine guns, and active counterattacks, but it was a cr…

I was going to make the same recommendation. In particular I'd recommend her new book, _The Joy of Abstraction_. It's a real textbook that goes up through the Yoneda Lemma, but it …

It's interesting to note that this blog post was written in 2003, and that a lot of the arguments we've seen in this thread, both for and against dynamically typed languages, are e…

I think some of the people responding to the comment about solving the energy problem are missing the point. There's solving the energy problem in the sense of finding an energy so…