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The incoming administration wholesale replaced the contents of whitehouse.gov Web content from previous administrations, is archived by the National Archive. (Eg https://bidenwhite…

Of course it’s been solved many times before. This is not a great write up and a terrible headline. In fact, the students came up with a trigonometric proof of Pythagoras which was…

Absolutely. Lots of humans live in a post-truth world. They learn not to trust anything they read or hear. Think totalitarian regimes wi try tight controls over media. A more painf…

Hahah. We did, but we were a few years too early for many parts of it. The Global Learning XPRIZE was a $15M challenge to build basically this: tablet software that could let kids …

That’s a weird comment. Were you trying to be sarcastic? There are 3 major federal parties (Liberals, Conservatives, NDP), who received 33%, 33%, and 18% of the popular vote respec…

Here’s a book I don’t expect to see on too many lists (and I’m surprised it’s on mine, as I don’t typically like big-property universes like Star Trek): The Final Reflection, John …

Ever since my PhD work (where I worked with some pretty obscure computing architectures), the phrase “Von Neumann Architecture” makes think immediately of D H Lehmer’s quote [1] on…

In fact, in many cases, deposits in provincial Credit Unions in Canada (e.g. Alberta and BC) are 100% guaranteed. (As opposed to the big banks, which are only guaranteed to $100,00…

Exactly what I was looking for! A quick suggestion, I’d love to see you add the “cyclic sighing” pattern from [1] as it’s recently gotten some amount of attention for it’s effectiv…

Not sure what you mean by >20 years to be right. I built and trained a 3-layer back-propagating neural net to do OCR on an Apple 2 in 1989 based on that paper. Admittedly, just the…

RocketLab ( https://www.rocketlabusa.com/ ) services a slightly different segment (i.e. not as heavy) but does take things regularly to space (and in the case of Capstone, to the m…

Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about here (and many others)

Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about below, and a great discussio…

What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble? How this is not just a DDOS against the entire system of peer review? Hon…

Dr Seuss: One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish.

I highly recommend Dr. Kelly Starrett for all things mobility. Thereadystate.com (his website) is my daily source of mobility instruction, both for daily mobility work, and for get…

The way it’s often been quoted to me: “practice makes permanent.” Or, put another way, “perfect practice makes perfect.” It absolutely matters what you practice, or you’re just tra…

Note: 2017 article

In any live event, things go wrong. Tearing in to what went well, what didn’t go well, and suggesting process changes for the next event is an important process not only for making…

Recently, I was a co-organizer for a conference. The event was almost over, and we were in the process of scheduling our event postmortem when one of our fellow organizers suffered…

This is, hands down, the greatest HN comment I have ever read.

I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too). Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split s…

I use mine as the living room computer. Something I can use with the kids to let them learn about computers and xode. And as a MAME box for playing through the history of video gam…

Nah. This guy was awesome. Of course he can supersede rules beyond his position. That’s “free speech” and tenure, and exactly what Universities have traditionally been about. He’s …