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Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Personal blog · hpcdan.org/reeds_ruminationsculturescience
Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future is a personal blog at hpcdan.org about culture and science. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The one comment doesn't discuss this blog's writing. It recalls a talk using simple words and cites an xkcd book. The site name, Reed's Ruminations, suggests a personal blog on past, present and future.
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Most Recent Posts Older Posts Read All Posts I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned. — Richard Feynman Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break t
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There was a talk at a university, where the presenter used only words of two or less SYLABLES , but he allowed himself to use more complicated words after explaining them (but kept that to a minimum). I can't find either the author or the talk. I think it was some 5 years ago. At first, I thought it was Randall Munroe, but I might be remembering this: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ I've also tried with Paul Graha…
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