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Up And Down The Ladder Of Abstraction
This is tech. And interesting.The most exciting engineering challenges lie on the boundary of theory and the unknown. Not so unknown that they’re hopeless, but not enough theory to predict the results of our decisions. Systems at this boundary often rely on emergent behavior — high-level effects that arise indirectly from low-level interactions.
Cute cats via The One and Only Jaime Shelman available on Etsy
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These are my flat mates. ^_^
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Brilliant ad for Dollar Shave Club. I’m definitely planning on giving the service a shot, too. (via markwynerdesign)
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Joel on Management
We could do a lot worse than to listen to Mr Spolsky, and I can relate to the topic in question…
Nobody is going to be safe from this.
April Fool's RFCs
These are way beyond mere conventional nerdiness, and I love them.
Bertrand Russell doesn’t sound like he knows how to be wrong, and posits that there is no afterlife (so there can’t be an afterlife).
Christopher Hitchens died today at the age of 62.
I don’t think it’s too great a stretch to claim that our world has lost one of the smartest and most articulate people ever to have walked upon it.
He was a true hero, and one of my greatest inspirations.
RIP
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
I love Newton.
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Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital
Who says you can’t hoard anything in this now technological world? Here’s something for the science history buffs:
The largest collection of Isaac Newton’s papers has gone digital, committing to open-access posterity the works of one of history’s greatest scientist.
Among the works shared online by the Cambridge Digital Library are Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica and the ‘Waste Book,’ the notebook in which a young Newton worked out the principles of calculus.
Other of his myriad accomplishments include the laws of gravity and motion, a theory of light — pictured above are notes on optics — and his construction of the first reflecting telescope.
Newton was also notoriously idiosyncratic and irascible, obsessed with the occult and vicious towards scientific rivals; a full account of his life and science can be found in James Gleick’s Isaac Newton, and a partial but entertaining fictionalization in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. But the papers come straight from the master.
“Anyone, wherever they are, can see at the click of a mouse how Newton worked and how he went about developing his theories and experiments,” said Grant Young, the library’s digitization manager, in a press release. “Before today, anyone who wanted to see these things had to come to Cambridge. Now we’re bringing Cambridge University Library to the world.”
Approximately 4,000 pages of material are available now, and thousands more will be uploaded in coming months.
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