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an approachable description of macroeconomics

see also design and sketches sections on his website: jesseparotti.com

Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used somewhere?

photo essay on making glass eyes

“So if Lisp can do so much more with so much less, what would a million line Lisp program look like? Could we even imagine it? It turns that such a program exists, and is widely available.”

“Weapons are only weapons if you’re willing to use them.”

“There, I said it. We don’t care. Really. I didn’t even fix it on my machine. What’s the point?”

The arrows generally indicate addition of new symbols and/or axioms. Arrows that meet indicate the combination of structures - for instance, an algebra is a vector space that is also a ring, and a Lie group is a group that more...

"We are not scanning all those books to be read by people," explained one of my hosts after my talk. "We are scanning them to be read by an AI." -- On artificial intelligence, Google, Turing and von Neumann

“All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, more...