Lee Bollinger has gotten a lot of criticism for his extremely harsh introduction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran,
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Wikipudiate?
Surprisingly, the verb “wikipudiate” does not seem to exist yet. At least, a Google search turns up no hits. I
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This Friday I attended a productive and unexpectedly fascinating workshop at UC Berkeley, aimed at developing a model policy for
Continue readingBeautiful Code Chapter Now Online
As promised, my chapter from O’Reilly’s Beautiful Code book is now online under a free license: Subversion’s Delta Editor: Interface
Continue readingBook Purge.
It was time. There were stacks of books sitting on the floor, for lack of space to shelve them. Even
Continue readingOSCON, Swedish Pirates, and more.
I don’t normally do “What’s Karl been up to lately?” posts, feeling that people would probably rather read short articles
Continue reading“Beautiful Code” has arrived…
…er, well, the book has anyway. My copies of Beautiful Code are here: Appropriately, the book itself is physically beautiful.
Continue readingWhat Would Euler Do?
I was going through a pile of papers today and found some old correspondence with the Mathematical Association of America.
Continue readingGo see Will Franken. Now.
If you live in or near San Francisco, please go see Will Franken‘s show at The Marsh as soon as
Continue readingAnswering Augusto…
A student named Augusto Pedroza posted a comment here recently, a comment containing such a large and complex question that
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