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Author here. Thanks for waiting. It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidt…

(I'm the OP here.) My source for the statement that "instruments were being tuned to this scale well before the invention of logarithms" is an article by Edward Dunne and Mark McCo…

This is an important point. The Google white paper does address it, though only in the abstract: They want to maximize both capacity and IO bandwidth. One can imagine large disks w…

PDF version here: http://bit-player.org/bph-publications/AmSci-2002-03-Hayes-N... (from the author's website)

Please note: There's a PDF available at: http://bit-player.org/bph-publications/AmSci-2001-11-Hayes-t...

Apologies to the HN community. I'm the author of the story linked to here. I'm also the jerk who pulled it off the web when I thought my site was getting the DDoS treatment. Mea cu…

I'm the site owner. It's open again, temporarily. Somebody's script has multiple machines (many are EC2 instances) downloading the same file many times per second. That's not somet…