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Does "Nicolas Bourbaki" count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

You might want to check the bio of Antonio García Martí­nez, who has a physics background, and subsequently worked in both finance and adtech.

There's a bill (H.R. 4009) named "Flamethrowers? Really? Act" to regulate flamethrowers the same way machine guns are regulated: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-…

Several open source cloud projects (OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenNebula) implement the Amazon EC2 API. Eucalyptus is the only one that formally obtained a license from Am…

That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq

I've used k2pdfopt for reading two-column formatted academic papers on Kindle Paperwhite, it works great.

Here's a talk he gave on this topic, from 2013: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...

There's "Making Software" by Oram and Wilson: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do

For a critique of Unz's data analysis, see Andrew Gelman's blog post here: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...

Orca wasn't built by contractors, it was written in-house by Romney staffers and volunteers. See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...