New Post from BiteofanAppleAn Age Of Promethean AmbitionsIn a recent post, I wrote the following:[Without] the context of history, we're blind to the reality that we live in a world… deeply connected and familiar to the worlds of the past.Perha...
New Post from BiteofanAppleWords Are A Leaky AbstractionSomething about hearing the phrase "Claude's Soul Document" got me thinking again about a problem I've long pondered. Software folks, like myself, have a long and proud history of tak...
New Post from BiteofanAppleOn The Lies Depression TellsI'm no stranger to depressive episodes, though thankfully mine are sparse and usually brief: sometimes a day or two, though on rare occasions perhaps a week or more. I'm thankful mine have never...
New Post from BiteofanAppleThe Long View Of HistoryHistory as a subject is often viewed by students and the public at large as a domain without a use, a pedantic study of dates and names with some vague mission to remember the past—a memorial to age...
New Post from BiteofanAppleMaintaining A Music Library, Ten Years OnIt took me by surprise to learn that this post was now a decade old:Last week I decided to leave Spotify. I've been using the service for almost 2 years now, and overall I...
New Post from BiteofanAppleEmpirical Partial DerivativesMathematics and Science are inextricably linked. As the renowned twentieth-century physicist Eugene Wigner wrote, mathematics is "unreasonably successful" in the natural sciences. By this he me...
New Post from BiteofanAppleChemical Telescopes And The Process Of ScienceIn 1619, Daniel Sennert crouched over a low furnace in his cloistered laboratory at the University of Wittenberg. The air was still and stifling. Though the room was packed, no...
The Methods Of Science & Medieval RainbowsIt happened again! I love it when my interests align.Not too long ago, Veritasium released a fascinating video on the physics of rainbows—which you should totally watch. In that video they discuss th...
The Practicals Of Writing: Paper And PensWithout wishing to turn this into a writing & pen blog, I did want to talk a little more about the kit I use these days, if only because I figure some readers out there might find it interesting or useful....
