Meeting Justice Kennedy
I saw Justice Anthony Kennedy tonight at Northwestern Law School. He gave a short talk on ethics and the Constitution,…
Letter from Knuth
Half a year ago I read Knuth’s book Surreal Numbers. Written in the style of a children’s book it explains…
the secret life of Professor Lessig
One nice thing about Google Groups is that you can use it to search for recent posts by people who…
secroll
secroll is a python program to allow you to securely roll an n-sided die between two parties. If you remember…
today’s featured superhero: Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen is absolutely incredible. The depth and breadth of his knowledge is absolutely amazing. He has a casual style…
Tufte
Today I took a one-day course from Edward Tufte, the infodesign maven. He was surprisingly kind and silly — not…
today’s featured superhero: Edsger Dijkstra
Raph has a beautiful rememberance of Dijkstra.Dijkstra was an intellectual father to me. Twenty or so years ago, my father…
today’s featured superhero: D. J. Bernstein
D. J. Bernstein quickly won my heart with his sparse writing style (“You can send me email at […]; I…
today’s featured superhero: Seth Schoen
I could tell you all about Seth Schoen but you could probably get everything you need to know just from…
today’s featured superhero: Brad Templeton
It seems fitting that for the day we celebrate our freedom, the superhero is Brad Templeton, Chairman of the EFF…
today’s featured superhero: Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud is an unstoppable technical and social hacker.