Science

I did geology way back when in university. Mostly computer stuff since, for better or worse. Geology kind of requires that you know how to drive… the last time I was behind a wheel, probably the summer of 1997, the geology van was rolling uncontrolled back down a hill as I tried to find the "stop" pedal. The other students did not before that point believe my claim that I did not know how to drive. Still don't.

toy Common LISP orbit simulator

https://thrig.me/src/libsrum.git

CargoCult.pdf

All Creatures Great And Small

age-of-exploration.mp4

https://danluu.com/futurist-predictions/

https://geology.com/articles/ticks-lyme-disease/

mindfullness.pdf

Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer - Francis Galton

Computers, You May Have Heard Of Them

dijkstra-really-teaching-computing-science.gmi

gridrisk.pdf

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/

History Stuff

It's here because I don't have a better place to put it.

https://acoup.blog/author/aimedtact/

history-uniform-random-number-generation.pdf

Math Is Hard

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/03/13/pi-from-the-sky/

After the vote, a legislator turned to Waldo, who was also the president of the Indiana Academy of Science, and offered to introduce him to the man behind the bill. The professor declined. His reasoning? “I’m already acquainted with as many crazy people as I care to know.”
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Edwin Goodwin claimed to have conquered the impossible circle and square challenge, but it required “changing” the value of pi. He claimed God had done just that in March of 1888, directly revealing to him its true value – 3.2 – which made solving the problem possible.
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Does it come as any surprise that the Indiana House passed this abomination of a bill unanimously (67 to 0) and did so proudly?

lockhartslament.pdf

Normal Accidents

what-made-apollo-a-success.pdf

Musica Universalis

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-shows-when-solar-systems-become-unstable-20230516/

Rewrite It With Rust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

Whorf Factor Six

"How Grammar Changes Perception" in Scientific American 329, 4, 48-59 (November 2023)

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-behavior-people.html