From the Financial Times: (and you should buy a subscription) Piracy is a problem as old as the music industry itself. In Victorian times, it was illicitly copied sheet music that was the avowed enemy of the artist, and the
Space-X patents
Anderson: So what have all your creative people come up with, then? What’s different in your basic technology versus 50 years ago? Musk: I can’t tell you much. We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is
Einstein and Peer Review
From Time. Although when I posted this on twitter, I got a good response. @vyodaiken @vassalos the problem being that we all think that we are Einstein, where in reality we are the "erroneous" anonymous expert — Lefteris Sidirourgos (@lsidir) March
Pointers draft
Despite pedants, pointers are useful and interesting and if you don’t understand them, you don’t really get what’s going on in a computer. Think of memory as a function $latex M: N\to N$ where $latex N$ is the set of