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I think it was Ethan Zuckerman who once said that Congress is ill-equipped and incompetent to solve this kind of problem and that we need to design systems that guarantee outcomes …

Visualizations like this truly highlight how much there is to be gained from viewing the 3D phase space, but also how much richness we miss in >3D! (I wonder if there are slick way…

Do boycotts work anymore? I'm asking for an AI-protesting friend.

Really neat! Heat pipes also utilize capillary action (via wicks) for heat exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe

Modern Warfare.

Physics teachers may enjoy Madame Hyde (2017) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Hyde In it, there are long dialogues on Fermat's principle of least time ( https://en.wikipedia…

Really cool! I see a resemblance to scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/

There's a hell of a lot more. Michael Faraday's "Chemical History of a Candle" is a very readable masterpiece on the subject, despite its age. The Engineering Guy has done much to …

Brilliant and powerful statement. Kudos to Lichess. But this part: > Imagine if scientists kept the result of every scientific study to themselves. The same work would have to be d…

This is brilliant work. I've been playing with this for the last half hour and have found cool papers that I otherwise wouldn't have. To me, this has a great edge over google schol…

So given that the Super League won't work, what then _will_ work? It seems to me that innovations can come from two forces: 1) Fairness: Make teams operate fairly. Audit thoroughly…

> Everything in life has turned to spam. Why do we do this to ourselves?

Thank you!

I'd like to do this. Can you recommend a good starting place to learn how?

Yeah. I've seen it in an old BBC documentary: The secret life of machines - Internal Combustion Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y

Very neat! For a deeper appreciation, check out "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants": http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

Roger Penrose devoted more than half of his doorstopper of a book "Road to Reality" to complex numbers in which he uses Riemann surfaces to visualize the complex-number fabric of R…

Looks great! LOL at the "Knuth is my homeboy" picture!

Dead link that. Should let the author know. But there's a link at the top of the page as well: https://zyedidia.github.io/literate/website-source/

Not much in principle. It is just that literate is language agnostic whereas knitr seems dedicated to R.