2023 - To Read

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Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.

Did a colossal collision with a doomed planet give us our satellite?

I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.

Remember blogging? That thing a blogger on the Internet declared dead twelve years ago not realizing they were, in fact, blogging at that very moment even

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Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.

I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet 1 chip, probably designed in the 1970s. This article provides an introductory g...

Author summary Simulating a model of a biological system can suggest ideas for future experiments and help ensure that conclusions about a mechanism are consistent with data. The Beacon Calculus is a new language that makes modelling simple by allowing users to simulate a biological system in only a few lines of code. This simplicity is critical as it allows users the freedom to come up with new ideas and rapidly test them. Models written in the Beacon Calculus are also easy to modify and extend, allowing users to add new features to the model or incorporate it into a larger biological system. We demonstrate the breadth of applications in this paper by applying the Beacon Calculus to DNA replication and DNA damage repair, both of which have implications for genome stability and cancer. We also apply it to multisite phosphorylation, which is important for cellular signalling. To enable users to create their own models, we created the open-source Beacon Calculus simulator bcs (https://github.com/MBoemo/bcs.git) which is easy to install and is well-supported by documentation and examples.

Gretchen Daily is working to make the environment more of an element in economic decision-making.

Last time, I discussed the trade-offs between more traditional CRDTs, such as the State-based CRDT, Op-based CRDT, and Delta-based CRDT. There are another class of CRDTs: Merkle CRDTs. Most ink spilt on CRDTs focuses on consistently merging data from different replicas. That's just half the story. Without a way of

A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and...

We spent years working on this game. We're betting our family's future on it. So. Why does it look so bad? We've been writing indie game...

A proposal for the next generation of portable documents.

Facing death, these people found a clarity about how to live

Explore this post and more from the math community

Nikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure” is an entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford.

What a trippy gravitational phenomenon can tell us about the universe.

Written by music journalist Ben Murphy, Ears to the Ground is out in May through Velocity Press.

Art has always relished the chaos of technology

A loan deal for the Asante treasures offers a golden opportunity for cultural exchange, argues the museum’s director

"I think that one of the biggest problems in information security is a lack of threat modeling. We encrypt things, we sign things, we institute rotation policies and elaborate useless rules for passwords, because we are looking for a “best practice” that is going to save us from having to think about what our actual security problems are." https://blog.glyph.im/2024/01/unsigned-commits.html by @glyph@mastodon.social

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I don’t want to save the world. I don’t want to tile the universe with hedonium. I don’t want to be cuckolded by someone else’s pretty network-TV val…