Unenumerated

During my blog absence, I've been studying, designing, and implementing a style of programming I call temporal programming . It is use...

The subjective theory of value, used by the Salamanca school in Renaissance Spain and most recently in neoclassical and Austrian economics, ...

The Black Death, caused (as DNA testing of victims has recently confirmed) by the bubonic plague, Yersina pestis , swept through Europe pri...

Progress in the Malthusian isocline in England from the 13th through 19th centuries, as, among many other factors, horses slowly replaced ox...

So asks gwern in a spectacular display of hindsight. The short answer about why it took so long is that the bit gold/Bitcoin ideas were now...

One of the more interesting and well-documented events of recent human evolution is the rise of adult lactase persistence, which allows some...

The biggest problem we face with the frontier below that we're literally in the dark. We have a number of crude geophysical techniques...

Tyler Cowen posits that we are going through a Great Stagnation . Civilization has harvested the low hanging fruit of the internal combust...

Proof of the Pythagorean theorem: Dark matter: Chemical reactions, fire, and photosynthesis: How trains stay on their tracks and go through ...

Atomic clock on a chip for about $1,500. Accurate and independent clocks improve secure synchronous protocols , in other words can help se...

A number of my friends have gotten wrapped up in a movement dubbed "The Singularity." We now have a "Singularity Institute...