His talks cover a variety of topics, from type inference to API design and cache lines. Rich Hickey (Clojure): I am not a Clojure programmer, but I like reasoning about and building programming languages. Even if you don't, Rich Hickeys talks are inspiring and thought-provoking. Whenever ...
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A happy star must also rule, and my situation and so manifold distracting affairs of course do not permit me to pursue such meditations as in the happy years 1796-1798 when I created the principal topics of my Disquisitiones arithmeticae. But I am convinced that if good fortune should do mo...
I had a blast at the festival when I attended in 2016, and I’m thrilled to be returning. It’s probably the last time I’ll visit Europe for some years—living in such a remote part of the world as I do, international travel like this is a big deal for me, logistically, ...
Have a listen to theA Slice of Medievalpodcast, which I co-host with Historical fiction novelist Derek Birks. Derek and I welcome guests, such as Bernard Cornwell and discuss a wide range of topics in medieval history, from significant events to the personalities involved. There are now over ...
Hush-Hush skin for Mars Automatic Pistol (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/topics/dunsterforce-kiwis-in-the-hush-hush-briga...): Dunsterforce: Kiwi soldiers in the 'Hush-Hush Brigade'. One of the lesser known but most intriguing campaigns involving New Zealanders in the Firs...
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squares mark the former importance of the town. Some towns also have a 19th-century Russian Orthodox church and an abandoned synagogue. In Lithuania Minor, there are Lutheran churches next to the Catholic ones, while in the environs of Biržai and in Kėdainiai – Reformed Christian ...
One of the first things our history of science lecturer at King’s College told us was that on the vast majority of scientific topics, the church simply *did not care*. So when Buridan and Oresme challenged Aristotelian mechanics: the church just did not care at all, ...
“If Marv was your friend, he was your best friend,” said one of Heemeyer’s close associates, “but if he decided that he was your enemy, then he was your worst and most dangerous enemy.” Marvin Heemeyer, welder and tinkerer In the late 1990s the Docheff family approached Heemeyer...