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No he did not. The original paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702 This paper was not widely noticed back when it was written in July (both inside and outside the theoretical…

Graham Hutton, one of the authors of the original paper, also wrote a wonderful book "Programming in Haskell". I would wholeheartedly recommend it to both the programming novice an…

This is certainly an awesome and generous gesture and Drive Savers wholly deserves all the attention they get here. (No sarcasm!) Meanwhile, this is the donation page of Save the C…

This seems like an area where a trusted organization (perhaps the EFF?) could do a lot of good by creating a "for dummies" webpage where the vulnerability disclosure process is exp…

It's most certainly not scientific writing. But I think that is not the point of these publications -- they are meant for a wide audience. So I think I should interpret your critic…

As usual I think that Woit's blog post is unnecessarily polarizing. If you decide to read his post then I would recommend you also read the excellent comment by Marty Tysanner on t…

Quanta Magazine has also a good reputation among many theoretical physicists including myself. They of course do suffer from the occasional misconception, but as a whole the accura…

The main problem is that the supposed violation of momentum conservation. This law is very deeply ingrained in all the current fundamental theories of physics, from the standard mo…

> The parent would decide that in early days of Higgs' career, he wasn't productive enough, and thus he would prevent him making the discovery for which he is famous. You are stret…

Peter Higgs published about 5 scientific papers after his Nobel-winning work in 1964 until his retirement in 1996, none of which were particularly impressive. I think this is below…

It's a little complicated. The idea is that one uses this Leech lattice to define a 24-dimensional space, and we throw in little quantum strings that live on that space. These stri…

This article provides some historical context to today's prize. http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/10/08/the-twists-and-turns...