"I go through all the articles in the bulk download, save the ones that are clearly going to be useful and discard the remainder. This saves loads of time but also points me in directions I might not otherwise have thought of looking."(bit.ly) | Continue reading
What Readers Are Saying About Web Design for Developers This is the book I wish I had had when I started to build my first website. It covers web development from A to Z and will answer many of your questions while improving the quality of the sites | Continue reading
Currently reading: Abstract Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window] Abstract Approximately 22% of sun-like stars have Earth-like exoplanets. Advanced civilizations may exist on these, and significant effort has been | Continue reading
The "first comprehensive account of Bitcoin's underlying right-wing politics" argues that far-right political theory is not just widespread in the communities around Bitcoin, but is built into the software design of Bitcoin, and that | Continue reading
`Mostro son io': a Galilean Riddle and its Solution | Continue reading
This is a brief history of iron and steel production from its earliest origins through the 20th century, with a special focus on the career of Andrew Carnegie and on the economic impact of cheap and abundant steel. | Continue reading
Proto-Oceanic *mana Revisited | Continue reading
Liquidated. An Ethnography of Wall Street - Karen Ho | Continue reading
We argue that a number of biology (and evolution) textbooks face a crippling dilemma. On the one hand, significant difficulties arise if textbooks include theological claims in their case for evolution. (Such claims include, for example, 'God | Continue reading
Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and recognizing this will require us to be more intellectually modest. | Continue reading
An urge to jump affirms the urge to live: An empirical examination of the high place phenomenon | Continue reading
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is now a profitable method to decarbonize the grid, but if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided, emissions from transportation and heating must also decarbonize. One approach to renewable heating is | Continue reading
In this chapter I look over the many different futuristic economies that games have portrayed, the structures and architectures that emerged from them and what they show us about the potential of the computer game – as opposed to the film, the novel, | Continue reading
2011 A Grammar of Akkadian (3rd edition) | Continue reading
How Biased Household Inventory Estimates Distort Shopping and Storage Decisions | Continue reading
On software, or the persistence of visual knowledge | Continue reading
Near the end of the XIXth century part of mathematical research was focused on unification: the goal was to find "one sort of thing" that mathematics is (or could be taken to be) about. Quite quickly sets became the main candidate for this | Continue reading
The numerical distance effect (it is easier to compare numbers that are further apart) and size effect (for a constant distance, it is easier to compare smaller numbers) characterize symbolic number processing. However, evidence for a relationship | Continue reading
A vision for a new space age based on small launch vehicles. An introduction to microlaunchers and microlaunchers technology with a general overview of rocket design and engineering but at a popular and student level. Written for those who have a | Continue reading
Για τις Διαδοχικές ασυνέχειες της Γιώτας Τεμπρίδου, Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες, 2018 ΔΕΒΘ 2019, Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου-Βράνα Τριανταφυλλιά «Τα γλωσσικά, λογοτεχνικά, χωροχρονικά και ανθρώπινα περάσματα των Διαδοχικών ασυνεχειών» Αν πέσει πάνω σου όλη η | Continue reading
Pistic, traditional food from Western Friuli, N.E. Italy | Continue reading
Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Cultural Impact over the Centuries: Shakespearean Reflections | Continue reading
Using methods from extreme value theory, we examine the major pandemics in history, trying to understand their tail properties. Applying the shadow distribution approach developed by the authors for violent conflicts [5], we provide rough estimates | Continue reading
This article explores the semiotics of the ''roguelike'' genre. Most roguelikes reject contemporary advances in graphical technology and instead present their worlds, items, and creatures as American Standard Code for Information | Continue reading
How individuals have an ethical obligation to "overreact" to systemic pandemic risks. | Continue reading
Peer-to-peer business models rely on interpersonal communication for their success. In this article, we focus on Airbnb – an exemplar of the so-called ‘sharing economy’ – and more specifically, on Airbnb’s reciprocal reviewing system, which enables | Continue reading
Technologies to generate contact graphs for personal social networks | Continue reading
Explaining the Precautionary Principle and the need for overreaction under certain classes of multiplicative systemic risk. | Continue reading
A list of resources for virtue theories of argumentation. Last updated December 14, 2019. Please send suggestions and corrections to aberdein@fit.edu. | Continue reading
This paper applies biomimetic engineering to the problem of permissionless Byzantine consensus and achieves results that surpass the prior state of the art by four orders of magnitude. It introduces a biologically inspired asymmetric Sybil-resistance | Continue reading
Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Cultural Impact over the Centuries: Shakespearean Reflections | Continue reading
Corinda - 13 Steps to Mentalism Complete Book | Continue reading
In many of the established democracies of Europe and North America, populist alternatives to democratic governance are gaining popularity and political power. In attempting to make sense of these developments, I argue, unlike many, that the rise of | Continue reading
Old Technologies Never Die | Continue reading
For no reason in particular, I thought it would be nice to have a list of fictional works in which one of the main characters is an academic philosopher. The rules are somewhat arbitrary. I am prepared to be flexible as to what counts as fiction or | Continue reading
In order to understand both where we are going and why we are witnessing the disappearance of good jobs and increased polarization in society, we must broaden our focus beyond a mere analysis of technological change. Rather, the debate that we should | Continue reading
News consumption exhibits an increasing shift towards online sources, which bring platforms such as YouTube more into focus. Thus, the distribution of politically loaded news is easier , receives more attention, but also raises the concern of forming | Continue reading
Adaptive Systems Programming Project: A Simulation of Grey Walter’s Tortoise | Continue reading
Abstract Although the contours of the “disabled person” category are questioned by anti-ableist activists, they remain rigid regarding transabled people (who want to become disabled). For anti-ableist activists, transabled people do not count as | Continue reading
Since 1950, when Alan Turing proposed what has since come to be called the Turing test, the ability of a machine to pass this test has established itself as the primary hallmark of general AI. To pass the test, a machine would have to be able to | Continue reading
What do binary (or probabilistic) forecasting abilities have to do with overall performance? We map the difference between (univariate) binary predictions, bets and "beliefs" (expressed as a specific "event" will happen/will not | Continue reading
Multiscale Localism: Politics and Ethics under Uncertainty Most of the tension is between 1) Embedded, complexity-minded, multiscale/fractal localism (politics as an ecology/complex adaptive system), and 2) Abstract one-dimensional universalists and | Continue reading
LC: A Mostly-strongly-timed Prototype-based Computer Music Programming Language that Integrates Objects and Manipulations for Microsound Synthesis (Ph.D. thesis) | Continue reading
Presented to the Obama Commission in 2010. Not one of its points made it to the clueless but otherwise very verbose report. | Continue reading
Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature | Continue reading
The 100 step garden (Hyakudan-en) | Continue reading
Abstract. Underneath a full table is presented of 15 aspects/symptoms, in order to exactly differentiate between burnout and depression. Most aspects are (indirectly and dispersedly) mentioned in scientific literature as on http://scholar.google. | Continue reading