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The excellent graphic novelPrime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutationsby Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville, illustrated by Robert J Lewis,(I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News, here.)has an appendix,...
I am teaching two new NYU classes this fall. One of them is History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which I wrote about recently. The other is Pop Music Analysis for Non-Majors. I enjoy teaching new classes, even though they...
Markdown - 2 lines # Contact forms Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address. Minimal HTML - 10 lines <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Contact forms</title> </head>...
Silos near Downtown Prosper, Texas, greet the morning sun. The post Prosperous Silos appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Have you noticed that every third article now seems to be about some variation of “phone addiction” or “internet addiction” or (my least favorite) “dopamine addiction”? Can we stop beating this dead horse? I saw The Social Dillema back...
The famous San Diego Comic-Con is just a couple weeks away, and if you were hoping to go but don’t have tickets yet, well, you’re far too late. These sell out months in advance. (But if you happen to be in San Diego during this time,...
Over the last few centuries the world has seen many huge changes. Our rate of big changes became much higher than before, and for most such changes we can find a parameter (or combo) re which it represents unprecedented change....
You don’t hear that someone has “gone postal” much anymore. Yet decades ago, it was a hot catchphrase until the early 1990s. […]
A photo dump of Theo at the farm. He was a little camera shy, but I managed to get a few good shots of him.
Spent last week at the farm. Took a lot of photos. These are the keepers.
So, summer gets really hot, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. At my place, it isn't actively dangerous yet, but it's still unpleasant. A normal air conditioner uses a low boiling-point liquid: something like liquid propane...
polyagency: the practice of engaging in or being open to using multiple AI agents concurrently.
Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive is a loosely connected series of short stories often gave me the heebie-jeebies, but always kept me interested. The author, Alison Gadsby, blended horror, science fiction and more than a bit of...
Today at Crucial Tracks: Sabotage, by Beastie Boys What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning? This is more of a gotta go, gotta go now kind of song, but it’s definitely right for some kind of mornings.
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