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Saw the title and thought "oh, I'll bet it is at some insane high pressure or some other exotic condition". Clicked through to an image of a diamond anvil. Not disappointed.

Very fun read. There is something really enjoyable about stories of people solving the problem at hand in the most straightforward way possible, even when that means digging into a…

Correction: The article states that Thomson's problem has only been solved for 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 charges. However, in 2013 the 5-electron case was solved by Richard Schwartz. Here…

Yes, though of course here Stein is referring there to the Wolfram quote that's on slide 28 (roughly: certain kinds of development can't be done in academia) and not the condescend…

I'm glad William included slide 10 calling attention to the hostile and insulting attitude Wolfram Research has toward mathematicians and reproducible science in general. (I think …

It's an exciting thing to announce, and I'm sure it will go well. Best of luck.

It's not a filter, as others have suggested, but rather a standard artifact of vacuum-tube-based television cameras that were in use at the time. (I don't know why this lecture was…

The obituary was too technical for Nature.

This looks nice. What I'd really like to see, along these lines, is a python library for automated document metadata extraction with confidence assessment, like this: ./autometa.py…