E-books and tablets, smartphones, Google and even ‘The Matrix’ were all conceived in the mid-20th century by the author of ‘Solaris’. Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the future we live in.

A group of younger workers, devotees of the FIRE movement, are seeking ways to leave the workplace decades ahead of the norm, ducking mistakes made by previous generations. One woman’s grocery budget is so detailed she knows how much she will pay each month…

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It must be that time of the year that Amazon's vampires, err, I mean recruiters awaken, come out of the woodwork and try to gather new initiates. Indeed it is very fitting that this is happening around Halloween! Two years ago, after a rather unpleasant interview…

“Common what?” is a common reply I get when I mention Common Lisp. Perhaps rightly so, since Common Lisp is not all that common these days. Developed in the sixties, it is one of the ol…

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Hot new technology will soon disrupt the business of Hollywood, and almost nobody sees it coming.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Ecuador to discuss efforts to repair the ozone layer, and the return of a banned chemical will be on the agenda.

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An iOS Dev’s intro to graphics, and a Graphics Engineer’s intro to ARKit

Attention conservation notice: Over 7800 words about optimal planning for a socialist economy and its intersection with computational complexity theory. This is about as relevant to the world aroun…

In order to improve the quality of my trannoscription of the 1879 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I collate the text against the Google Books version. Although the OCR is faulty, it is helpful fo…

Over the past few years, ever since writing " If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You ", I've been contacted by people from all backgrounds who are inspired and want to learn physics, but don't know where to start, what to learn, what to read, and how to structure…