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Ken Ono, one of the authors, is the mathematician behind the University of Virginia women's swimming team's dominance in recent years, including world records and gold medals. http…

> "What are your best memories from your youth?" as an over 30 year old, that's easy, and they fit with this post: 1. Playing jailbreak with neighbors 2. A marathon ultimate frisbe…

I like the buffet analogy. It is a good example of "choice architecture" a la Cass and Sunstein from "Nudge". Nudge is one of a number of works arguing that we factor in more than …

I am currently leading a topic group at work on code documentation in AI development. I was already planning to skip the lists of dos and don'ts, as well as the usual best practice…

I fully agree about the role of an expressive test suite. One of the key insights of Kuhn as cited here is that a "theory" of gravitation requires examples like planetary motion an…

Very cool! My daughter is getting interested in robotics, and we recently got an Arduino starter set. This won't be our next project, but it will get us building more!

Same for me for history. I didn't hate it, but I find history much more interesting since high school. A big change for me with respect to history of science and technology was rea…

A related passage from Socrates' Apology: "Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, …