Stories by jacobolus

Disk sampling on a sphere

Keep your sink clean (2020)

Bret Victor tweets about the Macbook Pro touch bar

New Koch [January 2016]

Introducing Oodle Mermaid and Selkie (data compressors)

Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

Thiel Apologists Still Having a Hard Time

Separation of Concerns in the Design of Twitter’s Pelikan Cache

Building the Moroccan Court (2013)

Kicked out in America

The dark, disturbing world of the visa-for-sale program (2014)

How modern zoning affects land value and incentivizes sprawl

How Putin and His Cronies Stole Russia

Shalizi & Farrell make a sharp positive case for democracy vs markets/hierarchy

What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? Jared Diamond reviews Acemoglu & Robinson

Refuting the “sixteen concerned scientists” about global warming

“Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics” (pdf)

Vi Hart explains sound, music, and the ear [13 min long video]

David Beazley puts his 1978 Superboard on the Cloud [Pycon talk]

The New Yorker: David Denby reviews The Social Network (new film about Facebook)