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twobithistory.org | ||
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www.righto.com
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| | | | | We are restoring a vintage 1 computer that CuriousMarc recently obtained. Analog computers were formerly popular for fast scientific compu... | |
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www.jeremykun.com
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| | | | | Last time we investigated the naive (which I'll henceforth call "classical") notion of the Fourier transform and its inverse. While the development wasn't quite rigorous, we nevertheless discovered elegant formulas and interesting properties that proved useful in at least solving differential equations. Of course, we wouldn't be following this trail of mathematics if it didn't result in some worthwhile applications to programming. While we'll get there eventually, this primer will take us deeper down the rabbit hole of abstraction. | |
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henrikwarne.com
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| | | | | Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I remember from many years ago. After reading it, I understand what a genius he was,... | |
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undsoc.org
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| | | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers... | ||
