Stories by gpvos

Troika – a ternary hash function

Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe

How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language (2005)

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019

What did Jesus really look like? (2015)

There will be a new Unicode character for the Japanese Era starting May 1, 2019

Political apps create social networks with only like-minded people

The Rise of “Worse Is Better”

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

How did medieval people dance? (2013)

A novel probabilistic forecast system predicting anomalously warm 2018-2022

The story of the “ping” program

Time and thyme are not homophones

Voter suppression keeps Georgia a red state

Three buses come along at once. Which should you take?

Pigments were historically used as medicines

The more valuable your work is to society, the less you’ll be paid for it

The misunderstood X-XSS-Protection (2016)

Twenty-first century Victorians

Digital colonialism: how Facebook's free internet service fails its users (2017)

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