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Samuel Arbesman
Samuel Arbesman is the author of
The Magic of Code
and is scientist in residence at Lux Capital.
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Business
Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl
Ideas
I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You
Science
The Deep Interdisciplinarity of Everything Around Us
Science
The Mathematics of Food Pairing in Indian Cuisine
Science
Patent Networks and Invention Big Data
Science
Photographing Snowflakes in Freefall
Science
Academic Hiring is an Uphill Battle
Science
A Sandbox for the Anthropocene
Science
"Naches" from our Machines
Science
A Premonition of the Digital Humanities, Fifty Years Ago?
Science
Computational Creativity and the What-If Machine
Science
Software Clones: Genetic Variation and Technology
Science
Monty Hall, Erdos, and Our Limited Minds
Science
The Ages of Whales and Technological Change
Science
The Invention of the Equals Sign
Science
Quantitative Biology and Quantitative Football
Science
From 53 kilobytes of RAM in 1953
Science
When Extrapolation Fails Us: Incorrect Mathematical Conjectures
Science
Computational Theology
Science
Tracking the incestuous genetics of the Greek gods
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