Articles by herodotus
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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)

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Al Nagler Obituary (televue.com)

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U.S. Startup Plans to Beam Sunlight Using Space Mirrors (orbitaltoday.com)

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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus (bbc.com)

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Air Canada starts shutting down (aircanada.com)

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Grete Hermann (wikipedia.org)

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Functional OO in PyFL (billwadge.com)

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A doctor on what it's like to end a life rather than extend one (theguardian.com)

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PyFL and Its While Clauses (billwadge.com)

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The Yin and Yang of Programming (billwadge.com)

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Trudeau says Canada will retaliate for Trump Tariffs (theglobeandmail.com)

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Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X (cbc.ca)

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Metal from space junk polluting the upper atmosphere (cbc.ca)

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PyFL, a Prgmr-Frdly Funcl Language Based on Conventional Mathematical Notation (billwadge.com)

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The Root of all Evil- more sayings (billwadge.com)

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"Computers Are Useless" and Other Sayings (billwadge.com)

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A Cosmic Glitch in Gravity (iop.org)

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Book Review: The Hidden Extinction Crisis of Natural Historians (undark.org)

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Lockpicking lawyer: cast a key kit [video] (youtube.com)

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Old Masters, New Technology (billwadge.com)

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Masahiro Hara – Inventor of QR Codes (wikipedia.org)

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And Beyond, (but not too far beyond) (billwadge.com)

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The complete story of Gödel incompleteness (billwadge.com)

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To Infinity Streams in PyFL (billwadge.com)

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What's an obelisk, anyway? (science.org)

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World Radio History Archive (worldradiohistory.com)

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The Rise and Fall of GOFAI (billwadge.com)

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Pattern Matching in Pyfl (billwadge.com)

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World Radio History Archive (worldradiohistory.com)

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Ransomware Hackers Arrested in Ukraine (bbc.com)

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Content Authenticity to Be Built into Leica, Nikon Cameras (adobe.com)

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Support for Works with Nest Ending (support.google.com)

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Poop bags for humans are now available at rock climbing sites in Squamish (cbc.ca)

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Webb Photographs Ring Nebula (petapixel.com)

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Printer Ink, It's a Scam (YouTube) [video] (youtube.com)

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Insights from a laboratory fire (Cause: LiIon battery) (nature.com)

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Alan Arkin has died (wikipedia.org)

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$30K in Gear Stolen from Filmmaker’s Car in SF-Caught on Camera (petapixel.com)

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Foveated Rendering (wikipedia.org)

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The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars (caltech.edu)

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The Autocomplete Myth (billwadge.com)

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A Bad Trip to Infinity (billwadge.com)

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I Chat, Therefore I Am (billwadge.com)

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Ask HN: Should an auto's warranty period apply to the car's software?

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Online Lens/Optics Simulator (sharedigm.com)

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Every – GOFAI is dead – long live (NF) AI (billwadge.com)

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[flagged] There are vaccines and there are vaccines (science.org)

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SkyNews (Canadian Astronomy magazine) is closing (skynews.ca)

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The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism (nytimes.com)

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“AI”: What’s in a Name? (vanemden.wordpress.com)

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Tell HN: Maarten van Emden died on January 4, 2023

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50 Years of Wow- I lived through 5 decades of computing milestones (billwadge.com)

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ChatGPT Writes Some Memos for Me – and Does a Great Job (billwadge.com)

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Let Cicero Help with Your Grant Application (billwadge.com)

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Car Thieves vs. the Final GlitterBomb 5.0 (YouTube) (youtube.com)

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I quiz ChatGPT about math (billwadge.com)

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DIY Equatorial Mount with Harmonic Drive (github.com/alanzjl)

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AI Generated Guest Blog: Famous Mathematicians (billwadge.com)

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Astronomers Troubled by New 'Cell Phone Towers in Space' (cnet.com)

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Mathematical Existence and the Axiom of Choice (billwadge.com)

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AI Generated Guest Blog: around the world (billwadge.com)

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Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being (pnas.org)

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Gofai is dead – long live (NF) AI (billwadge.com)

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Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) (youtube.com)

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Great astro-photo of the day for Halloween (nasa.gov)

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Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being (pnas.org)

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Believe Me, it Will Work: the rhetoric of software correctness (billwadge.com)

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Canadian tech companies created $54M ArriveCan app clones over a weekend (theglobeandmail.com)

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Two-Twenty-Two (Derek Lowe) (science.org)

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How Steve Sasson Invented the Digital Camera

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AI Inventors? Not So Fast

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The Dangers of Pathologizing Grief

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It’s time to ban private jets – or at least tax them to the ground