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30.11.2022

The Teetering Towers of Abstraction | bit-player

Abstraction is an abstraction. You can’t touch it or taste it or photograph it. You can barely talk about it without resorting to metaphors and analogies. Yet this ghostly concept is an essential tool in both mathematics and computer science. Oddly, it seems to inspire quite different feelings and r

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30.11.2022

We Gather Together… | bit-player

The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us, butAnthony Fauciand theCDCand79 percent of epidemiologistsare urging us to forgo the big family gathering this year. I’m sure that’s sound advice, but I haven’t seen much quantitative analysis to back it up. How serious is the risk when we go over the river and t

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30.11.2022

Questions About Trees | bit-player

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,” wrote Robert Frost. Those iambs come to me unbidden every time I set off down a nearby woodland trail. The trail is named for Frost, who spent several years in this part of Massachusetts, teaching boys in brass-buttoned blazers at Amherst College. Did the poet

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