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by arbesman 1y ago
Thank you!
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by arbesman 1y ago
Fantastic recommendation! This is a great book (and the second edition is on my shelf).
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by arbesman 1y ago
Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy it.
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by arbesman 1y ago
I really appreciate this! Thanks. I think focusing on wonder might be the way of providing a kind of healthy medium between those extreme utopian and dystopian approaches.
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by arbesman 1y ago
Thanks so much!
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by arbesman 1y ago
I want to give people a sense of the breadth of the book, hence the introduction (and I had thought that it might be too confusing, jumping into the middle of things...). But reasonable point.
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by arbesman 1y ago
Glad you enjoyed the intro! In terms of the meat, there’s only so much that can be provided in an introduction, but I did step through the chapters at the end, explaining a bit of what is to come (though obviously not the meat itself: that’
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by arbesman 1y ago
Author here! Happy to answer any questions about the book, the ideas in it, or even book writing more generally!
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Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation(themagicofcode.com)
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“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps(smithsonianmag.com)
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The Magic of Code(themagicofcode.com)
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Diegetic Music and Its Delights(arbesman.substack.com)
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The weird zombie existence of the Family Circus [video](youtube.com)
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Have Appliances Declined in Durability?(marginalrevolution.com)
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The Magic of Code(themagicofcode.com)
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Prince's special custom-font symbol floppy disks (2016)(nymag.com)
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The Magic of Code(themagicofcode.com)
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Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)(theappendix.net)
509 points by arbesman 1y ago|136 comments
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"The Phantom Tollbooth" Was Supposed to Be a Nonfiction Book About Cities(arbesman.substack.com)
12 points by arbesman 2y ago|1 comments
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What Limits a Cell's Size?(asimov.press)
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Europe's Border Anomaly (2017)(bbc.com)
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The Self-Domesticated Ape(kk.org)
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The Handoff to Bots(kk.org)
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The cartographer who mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth(nytimes.com)
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The Humanistic Computation Project(arbesman.net)
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Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts(wbur.org)
527 points by arbesman 2y ago|233 comments
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The iPhone and the Wonder of Computing(arbesman.substack.com)
3 points by arbesman 2y ago|0 comments
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Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture(theintrinsicperspective.com)
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Order and Disorder in Stories and Reality(arbesman.substack.com)
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Cliopatria: A database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE(zenodo.org)
1 points by arbesman 2y ago|0 comments

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