Stories by robinhouston

Military technology: Magic bullets

The Longest Word Ladder Puzzle Ever

A Modest Proposal: an essay about mathematical sense-making [pdf]

BT sues Google over Android

Farewell to a pen-friend (Tim Gowers on Gilbert Adair)

Don't bother turning off electronic devices

Gaming Google Scholar: how highly-cited researcher Ike Antkare was faked [pdf]

A rendering of roots of polynomials, using Javascript

Could air-traffic control become computerised?

Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd)

How to make the “impossible” functionals run even faster

The Effects of Alcohol Use on Creative Problem Solving

Scrolling: it’s really OK to have some white space at the bottom of the window

Liquid Light

Lynn Margulis, 1938–2011

The quantum state cannot be interpreted as something other than a quantum state

Economists vs Traders: Fighting a false forecasting war

The Marpa algorithm (for parsing)

Why aren't smartphone app developers going where the sales are?

The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically

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