| 1. | | A Documentary History of the Nock Combinator Calculus (urbitsystems.tech) |
| 2 points by johndcook 4 months ago | past |
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| 2. | | Do flu shots increase your risk of getting the flu? (wmbriggs.com) |
| 2 points by johndcook 10 months ago | past |
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| 3. | | Why US Navy ships are rusty (twitter.com/johnkonrad) |
| 1 point by johndcook 11 months ago | past |
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| 4. | | Collection of NYT headlines about life on Mars (twitter.com/iconjack) |
| 3 points by johndcook on Feb 1, 2025 | past |
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| 5. | | Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel (divisbyzero.com) |
| 8 points by johndcook on Nov 14, 2024 | past |
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| 6. | | Prediction markets need dumb money as well as smart money (columbia.edu) |
| 2 points by johndcook on Oct 25, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| 7. | | A one-kilometre Monster Telescope (barsoom.substack.com) |
| 3 points by johndcook on Oct 23, 2024 | past |
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| 8. | | I Love Calculator (karpathy.ai) |
| 2 points by johndcook on Oct 16, 2024 | past |
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| 9. | | A tour of the equational theories project (terrytao.wordpress.com) |
| 4 points by johndcook on Oct 13, 2024 | past |
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| 10. | | A deep dive into corporate surveillance technology (eff.org) |
| 3 points by johndcook on Aug 3, 2024 | past |
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| 11. | | Stuck at the Mall of America for Days on End (sometimesgibbs.com) |
| 1 point by johndcook on July 24, 2024 | past | 2 comments |
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| 12. | | Why Dune II Fails (becomingnoble.substack.com) |
| 4 points by johndcook on March 16, 2024 | past |
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| 13. | | Abraham Lincoln and Confidence Intervals (columbia.edu) |
| 1 point by johndcook on March 15, 2024 | past |
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| 14. | | Car Privacy Is Horrid (firewallsdontstopdragons.com) |
| 2 points by johndcook on Feb 19, 2024 | past |
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| 15. | | AI Generated Propaganda (twitter.com/politicalmath) |
| 123 points by johndcook on May 2, 2023 | past | 110 comments |
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| 16. | | New Book on Naming Things (namingthings.co) |
| 2 points by johndcook on March 14, 2023 | past |
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| 17. | | Secret Patents (slate.com) |
| 2 points by johndcook on Feb 27, 2023 | past |
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| 18. | | Simple Standard Event Logging (github.com/trothr) |
| 1 point by johndcook on Feb 8, 2023 | past |
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| 19. | | Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between (columbia.edu) |
| 93 points by johndcook on Jan 10, 2023 | past | 121 comments |
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| 20. | | Decoding the Artemis I Orion vehicle (destevez.net) |
| 2 points by johndcook on Nov 22, 2022 | past |
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| 21. | | Have your computer make a sound every time it sends Google data (twitter.com/bert_hu_bert) |
| 9 points by johndcook on Aug 22, 2022 | past | 1 comment |
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| 22. | | Six programming languages I’d like to see (buttondown.email/hillelwayne) |
| 481 points by johndcook on July 13, 2022 | past | 441 comments |
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| 23. | | FDA to approve redesigned Covid boosters without requiring data (reuters.com) |
| 22 points by johndcook on July 5, 2022 | past | 5 comments |
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| 24. | | With all due respect to the experts (americancompass.org) |
| 2 points by johndcook on June 28, 2022 | past | 1 comment |
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| 25. | | Just another Apollo? Part two (2005) (thespacereview.com) |
| 125 points by johndcook on June 14, 2022 | past | 118 comments |
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| 26. | | Alan Turing using math to repair his bike (mathmutation.blogspot.com) |
| 112 points by johndcook on May 23, 2022 | past | 61 comments |
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| 27. | | Escaping the Botnet: A Practical Guide (return.life) |
| 4 points by johndcook on May 20, 2022 | past |
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| 28. | | Specialization, moderation, and difficult life choices (protesilaos.com) |
| 1 point by johndcook on May 4, 2022 | past |
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| 29. | | Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea (plover.com) |
| 157 points by johndcook on April 19, 2022 | past | 65 comments |
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| 30. | | Lowering sodium intake doesn’t help heart patients (thelancet.com) |
| 251 points by johndcook on April 19, 2022 | past | 110 comments |
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