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AddThis blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer
By Lee Vinsel
I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some