Stories by jsomers

A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)

Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book

I should have loved biology

How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System

Engineers Take on the Ventilator Shortage

Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors

Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors

How Hackers Won the Water

Machining the Ultimate Hackathon Prize

IsTheWeatherWeird.com

The Braindead Megaphone (2007) [pdf]

A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers

How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

Using websockets to easily build GUIs for Python programs

Redesigning the Scientific Paper

Show HN: Hacker News Classics

The Shallowness of Google Translate (by Douglas Hofstadter)

The Shallowness of Google Translate, by Douglas Hofstadter

Saving the World from Code

A typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

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