In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
More Random Than We Realize
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I’ve previously posted on how US foreign policy, and how left vs right
ideologies, both seem less coherent that most expect them to be.
Why don’t people talk on the phone anymore?
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I’m sure everybody over 50 has noticed the trend of younger people—and by
“younger”, I mean even up to age 40—avoiding making phone calls. Instead,
people ...
New Cryptanalysis of the Fiat-Shamir Protocol
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A couple of months ago, a new paper demonstrated some new attacks against
the Fiat-Shamir transformation. *Quanta* published a good article that
explains...
Is Category Theory Being Co-opted?
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Is category theory being co-opted? These authors think so: • Esteban
Montero and Brandon Baylor, Category theory is being co-opted, Holon
Substack, 7 Septe...
The Day the Dollar Blinked
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Fresh from the September 2–3 SCO meetings in China, Eurasia is codifying a
multipolar order: dedollarized trade, alternative payment rails, secure
transp...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
(Un)Fairlicensing ANP aka License Trolling
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Today I received a copyright infringement notice from ANP Photo, the Dutch
photo press organisation, telling me I was using an image they hold the
rights t...
Ideology and misdirection
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I remember the shock of recognition I got reading liberal Raymond Aron’s
critique of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. The ideal of a society in
which e...
Australian Economic Stagnation
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It’s not news, at least in my circles, that much of the developed world is
seeing economic stagnation. Last month Australia convened a Productivity
Summit...
For the record
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In response to my recent blog posts, which expressed views that are
entirely boring and middle-of-the-road for Americans as a whole, American
Jews, and Isr...
The Road Not Taken
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from Lars Syll Had the whole discipline catastrophically
misunderstoodKeynes’ deeply revolutionary ideas? We heterodox economists,
who have chosen the road...
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
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Fred Smith founded FedEx on an idea everyone told him would fail and built
it into an $88 billion empire that changed how the world moves. In this
episod...
Houston, We Have Another Problem
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This follow-up to our earlier report, Houston, We Have a Problem,
identifies a new and deeply concerning signal: excess infant and child
mortality in those...
AI: great expectations
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This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago
younger me, and this post is one that I wrote in for Manufacturing
Engineering in...
What have I done?? No doubt a terrible thing!
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I never forgot this cartoon strip that I first encountered in my first year
at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 1969. I was pleased to recently
rediscove...
Fun things to do with Strava
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, I think of Strava as a running app. But
every now and then, I do something a bit different with it. Here are a few
example...
Fractured bones, fractured mind
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[image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and
fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso.
Five weeks ago my bi...
AI Safety Course Intro Blog
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I am teaching CS 2881: AI Safety this fall at Harvard. This blog is
primarily aimed at students at Harvard or MIT (where we have a
cross-registering agreem...
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...
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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Building An Inexpensive Robot With micro:bit
I just released the source code and a tutorial on building a remote
controlled robot using the micro:bit.
T...