2023 - To Read

“the cognitive style of chart rooms”

I recently read the blog post A decade of developing a programming language by Yorick Peterse (found via Steve Klabnik). I thought it was an interesting blog post which got me thinking, and I have opinions on programming language design from Rust (it is almost exactly a decade since I

A series of cuts at West Virginia University has largely affected the humanities, but any program that is not seen as marketable may get the axe.

These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.

The eBook of this fourth edition text for a second course in linear algebra is Open Access and aimed at undergrad math majors and graduate students.

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

Tips for success from the renegade British producer.

The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.

A lasting legacy of racism, oppression and colonialism is laid bare at a powerful exhibition in Cambridge. Confronting it can help us build a more equitable world

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org Ooooh, yeah. This and @alex@social.alexschroeder.ch 's "Wiki culture" article have been very thought-provoking. I've concluded that it's the interlinking and the intention to be edited (not just written and published once) are what make a wiki a wiki for me. I really like your point that linking between wikis makes them part of a larger social wiki. And now I've done my part: https://ratfactor.com/cards/wiki

'Gamma Tag' LP is scheduled for January 26 release.

Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist's understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?

Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today is out through White Rabbit Books next April.

Making sense of a broken world

An English-speaking Bonaparte has provoked a surreal cultural dislocation and some unintended comedy among French audiences.

Read Maxie Younger’s review of the album.

“Reading occupies a strange position in today’s world, being at once physiologically unnecessary and culturally central.”

As AI providers get sued over copyright, some users will get protection, others won't.