The Digital Antiquarian tells the history of computers and specifically computer gaming. It’s an amazing resource, and most of the articles are downloadable in .epub… Read More »Wonders of the Internet: Jimmy Maher, the Digital Antiquarian on The Fall of Sierra
(And relevant, I suspect, to more developed ones). This piece from Oliver Kim resonates with my struggle to get good (methodologically clear, sufficiently granular, consistent,… Read More »Quixotic Monuments to False Prediction: Oliver Kim and Morten Jervens on GDP in developing countries
… over the next six years Euclid will observe the shapes, distances and motions of billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. By doing… Read More »A sense of proportion; or, Here’s Euclid looking at
I came across this on HN – an excellent introduction to non-digital computers. If you’re curious how mechanical systems can perform arithmetic and even calculus… Read More »Wonders of the Internet: Basic Mechanisms of Fire Control (analogue computing)
Neutrinos… nicknamed ghost particles because of their uncanny properties… are the most abundant particles in the Universe — around 100 trillion pass harmlessly through your… Read More »Neutrino Bombshell
This is from an amazing explanation of the airfoil by Bartosz Ciechanowski – one of many physics / engineering demonstrations on his (highly recommended) website.… Read More »God’s own latency