Bird and Diz: “All the Things You Are”
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On one of my CDs I have an old 1945 version of Charlie Parker playing “All
the Things You Are,” with notes that it came from “Early Bird: The Best of
the 1...
BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large
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For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly
terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to
concentrate on re...
Counting with Categories
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You can see some lecture notes for a minicourse on combinatorics that I’m
teaching at the Summer School on Algebra at the Zografou campus of the
National T...
The Utopian Gilded Age?
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Trump’s economic agenda is no longer about deregulation—it’s about
dismantling the state itself. In this sharp commentary, economist Michael
Hudson unpac...
The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality
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Dear World Leaders, There is a crisis in multilateral cooperation and in
the financing of global public goods and development aid — one that is
compoundin...
The Economy--and its Future--in Four Charts
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*Substituting debt for earnings while enriching the rich will bear bitter
fruit. *
*Climbing above the craziness of the Normalized Now news flow to view t...
How Adaptive Modern Fiction?
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By averaging estimates of ChatGPT 3, 4.5, I find that in these years
typical people spent these hours per week consuming fiction and music:
Machines of Faithful Obedience
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[Crossposted on LessWrong] Throughout history, technological and scientific
advances have had both good and ill effects, but their overall impact has
been ...
Are pronatalists living on the same planet?
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Pro-natalism (the idea that people, or rather, women, should have more
babies than they choose to do at present) has become an established
orthodoxy,[1]. T...
NASA Is Worth Saving
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Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958
in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government
suppor...
Tiny Countries Should Not Exist
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There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop
making more of them.
The World Bank classifies 40 countries as 'small states' on t...
The Magical Mystery of The Beatles
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Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the
Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and
McCartney. I though...
Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots
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Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big
things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots.
There i...
European Far Right are Russian Quislings
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We need to strongly oppose pacifist opposition to European re-armament. The
latter is urgent and essential to defeating Russian fascist aggression in
Ukrai...
Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel
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Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used
as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by
that, but...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Blame: The Original Cryptocurrency
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They tie up heavy bundles of blame and place them on men’s shoulders, but
they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to help, siphoning off from
the g...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
Marble Maze Modules
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Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building
a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring
a w...
Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction
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Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand,
we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy
years ...
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