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☞ Sports Teams Named After Technologies
Unlike animals or occupations, one group I don’t see represented in a lot of team names is that of technology. Is it because tech feels too new and not…
Apr 2
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March 2024
☞ The Spreadsheet is a Simulation Machine
In praise of...Excel
Mar 11
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Samuel Arbesman
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February 2024
☞ The Linnaean Instinct and List-Making
The Philosophy of Catalogs, Technological Archaeology, and More
Feb 13
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Samuel Arbesman
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January 2024
☞ Living with the Veil of Progress
Incremental Humanism and How to Live in Our Complex World
Jan 23
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Samuel Arbesman
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☞ Multiplayer Mandelbrot
Mathematical Bestiaries and Multiplayer Fractal Spelunking
Jan 9
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Samuel Arbesman
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December 2023
☞ The Subtle Magic of Catalyzing Change
The Importance of Catalysts, via a Case Study: Desktop Publishing and the Seybold Seminars
Dec 12, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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November 2023
☞ The Kitchen Sink Conundrum and Simulation's Balancing Act
To simulate a world is almost a divine act. One Jewish tradition holds that there were multiple worlds created and destroyed before our own. They didn’t…
Nov 13, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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October 2023
☞ The Sewing Machine as Personal Computer?
Paper Sewing Patterns, Hardware, and Software
Oct 4, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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September 2023
☞ Computation as Philology
Logismics and the wide-ranging impacts of computing
Sep 5, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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August 2023
☞ The Garden of Computational Delights
Beneath the utilitarian purpose of computation, computing is also a source of delight and wonder. Software is not just databases and mail merges or SaaS…
Aug 2, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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July 2023
☞ Determining the Properties of Your Computational Universe
HAKMEM and the Simulation Hypothesis
Jul 5, 2023
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June 2023
☞ General Turtle, Inc. and Educational Machines
In praise of the General Single-Purpose Machine
Jun 13, 2023
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Samuel Arbesman
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