Stories by Tomte

An Oral History of When Politico Came to Capitol Hill

We Know by Freeman Dyson (2011)

Can K-Pop stars have personal lives? Their labels aren't so sure (2018)

The Cheating Cheaters of Moscow (2010)

Review: War of Mine, the board game (2017)

Programming Design Systems

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)

Heaven’s Vault is a game about translating an ancient alien language (2018)

Calm down trendspotters – ‘lagom’ is not the new hygge (2017)

Should we be trying to create a circular urine economy?

Great books are still great

Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure on the Cheap (2017)

Design: The Key to Writing (and Advising) a One-Draft Thesis (2002) [pdf]

Tips for Faculty Job Seekers at Community Colleges (2015)

Zbigniew Libera's Lego Concentration Camp (2000)

The Weird, Complicated, Sexist History of Pockets (2016)

Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

No one needs libraries any more? What rubbish (2017)

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms vs. Harry Potter (2014)