To put it another way, are Americans the only ones who love games where a primary activity is litigating the rules of the game? It’s so weird on just a minute’s consideration

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can someone please tell @acm.org that when I click on "PDF" on a paper in the digital library I want to download the PDF not spend 10 minutes waiting for their useless in-browser PDF reader to load so that I can click the button in the reader to DOWNLOAD THE GODDAMN PDF

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In teaching I increasingly think it’s easier for students to imagine a world before computers than to imagine computers before the internet

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This has to be the silliest mis-application of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that I have seen for a long time. It is immediately debunked by Chinese government investment in projects with long-term conséquences: high-speed rail, solar and wind energy, space programs, and AI.

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I have a favorite memory of my time at Caltech seeing Jeffrey outside the Red Door, just happily sitting there calculating away on his notepad. The peacefulness of being lost in thought. physics.mit.edu/news/jeffrey...

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