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Also check out the interview Ezra Klein did with Jennifer Pahlki on his podcast [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...

Love the post. I'll take this opportunity to link to a favorite classic linear algebra paper in a similar vein: "Nineteen Dubious Ways to Compute the Exponential of a Matrix" [1] […

Thanks for the link to that essay. I feel changed after reading it.

It’s even stranger than the author makes out. When I got into coffee in the 80’s, being a coffee snob meant buying beans, grinding them in a $30 Braun chopper, and brewing them in …

I had been intrigued by Lisp for years, but it was Julia's roots in Lisp that finally got me to explore the Lisp languages. I actually haven't used LispSyntax.jl, but it's close to…

Wow, you're correct, he uses ACM TOG for the paper. As a scientist, I mostly just use the REVTeX packages or tufts-latex. Evidently there's a brave new world of other templates out…

Does anyone know how he writes his papers ? His illustrations will forever be beyond my skills, but I’d like to up my paper mojo. Since his references are in bibtex, I assume he’s …

It was Peter Atkins’ lectures in Quantum Mechanics that made me decide to go into Quantum Chemistry, so the book always brings back fond memories. For Chemistry I’d also list Pauli…

You mean like https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl ?

Does anyone know of programming tools for better thinking? I used to be a very good programmer, and now I run a large research organization. One would think that there would be amp…

Course-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture [1], like an FPGA but with more robust logic units. Something I'd like to learn more about. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04509

Anyone know of anything similar for CGRAs?

I no longer work in the field, but I've always been incredibly impressed by the innovative methods that Steven Boxer uses in enzyme spectroscopy.

I've been a part of many language communities, and that the Julia team is the very best in terms of the professionalism of the language and the key modules. Maybe the best response…

In addition to being interesting to techies, this is a really well-written article, e.g. > Everyone was slightly disgusted and slightly impressed. Went back and reread the whole ar…

The National Cryptologic Museum is well worth visiting for the Enigma Machines alone. It's free to get in, right next to NSA headquarters, but you don't need a visitors pass or to …

I was so excited about VRML in 1996. I thought it was going to take over the world of molecular graphics -- all we would have to do is write molecule-to-VRML translators, rather th…

Slow down! I’m still catching up to sectorlisp!

The "Mike and Ike" book is the standard introduction to the field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quantu...

What? No Jaqal? https://www.sandia.gov/quantum/Projects/QSCOUT_Jaqal.html

Excellent storytelling from Serial about an unbelievable alleged Islamist plot in British schools.

Thanks for this. What I’m thinking of.

Big fan of Pluto, and I’ve watched the Computational Thinking videos several times already. What I’m looking for when I talk about tools for thinking are the same type of sketching…

I love the tools coming out of the Julia ecosystem, and am excited to see what comes next. I’m hopeful that we’ll see the development of tools to think with rather than tools to so…