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My life in a Python package

Nobel Prize winner Professor Sydney Brenner tells us that the key to encouraging innovation in research is to foster "deviant studies," where researchers work in areas in which they are ignorant, allowing for fresh perspectives and new ideas. Unfortunately, academia today discourages this sort of creativity.

Recently, I was silently lamenting the fact that I haven't been re-reading enough of the works of Jorge Luis Borges. So, to help remedy t...

Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023

Does Information Increase in Computation? Problem 1: Isn’t the output implied by the input? Problem 2: Doesn’t this contradict the second law of thermodynamics? This problem lies adjacent to another one at the roots of logic. If we extract logical consequences of axioms, then surely the answer was already there implicitly in the axioms; what has been added by the derivation? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02603.pdf

My past passion interfered with what truly matters when programming, so I gave up on it!

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Forty years after the internet was born, one of its pioneers calls for more critical thinking about how we use it.

So what is :Firth? It’s a programming language. It’s a compiler-interpreter implemented (currently) in Lua. It’s performant, portable, embeddable, stack-based, extensible, and sel…

Critical Program Reading A video from 1975 on writing correct software. It's the music that sells it for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA

I tried to write a big long thing about my ideal personal computer and ended up just outlining areas where I need to do more thinking: https://systemstack.dev/2022/12/new-old-computer/

Attached: 1 image There are lots of drawings of the I(identity) combinator out there, but I think this is the first time I come across one that is actually clear. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02603.pdf

New card and tabletop games including Wingspan, Exploding Kittens and Wavelength are introducing new players to the hobby and driving its popularity.

What happens when innovation doesn’t fit the usual narratives?

Mimicry but not thought, sophistry but not understanding

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To invest in science, we need to invest in tomorrow’s scientists. Let’s start by paying them wages that meet the cost of living.

One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them

Part of my journey to becoming a software engineer and working in tech is due to the fact that while in music school, I had exposure to visual programming environments like Pure Data / Max and Quartz Composer. Hindsight being 20/20, I probably would not have been as enamored with the idea of creating software - and learning how to program it - had I not been exposed to these environments.

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from France and another from Guatemala, has discovered a very large 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization ...