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Samuel Arbesman
Personal blog · arbesman.net/blog · on HN as arbesmansciencemath
Samuel Arbesman's personal blog at arbesman.net covers science and math. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Tech of the Rings: tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Samuel Arbesman's site for its collections and lists, such as a catalog of new research organizations, a list of unusually shaped schools, and excerpts from his book The Half-Life of Facts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Complexity scientist and VC Samuel Arbesman
Most-linked posts?
- Tech of the Rings: tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
- The Overedge Catalog: Misfit Research and Tech Organizations3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- The Garden of Computational Delights2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-02
- Sports Teams Named After Technologies2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
- /the-half-life-of-facts/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-04
- New Educational Models2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps, you may enjoy this collection - "The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations" [1]. I think it has quite the variety, and may help you distill a broader sense of where things are headed (and find people to reach out to). [1]: https://arbesman.net/overedge/
Comment linking /overedge/
on “Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?”Submitted Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered as a story · 151 points
HN discussionI've been exploring the landscape of new types of research institutes/organizations, with a catalog of my findings here: https://arbesman.net/overedge/ I'm happy to discuss the possibilities for research orgs, so please feel free to reach out.
Comment linking /overedge/
on “Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?”Submitted The Overedge Catalog: Misfit Research and Tech Organizations as a story · 45 points
HN discussion> How many cities would we need to add together to get to roughly 50% of the population? While this is an interesting question, it's not the one that we should ask: Instead, what is the lowest number of flights a candidate needs to take to visit a majority of the voters' nearby area? If the candidate can drive for under three hours to arrive at another area, the trip does not qualify for a flight. See these links fo…
Comment linking /blog/2011/02/02/the-city-states-of-america/
on “Math Professor Fighting Gerrymandering with Geometry”Submitted 2011: The Year You Weren’t Expecting as a story · 44 points
HN discussionNot to mention how easy it is to forget the historical track record of science being overturned by better science: http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
Comment linking /the-half-life-of-facts/
on “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science”Submitted Why Apollo 12 Was Amazing as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThere is a excerpt from chapter 1 of the book at the authors website. http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
Comment linking /the-half-life-of-facts/
on “The half-life of facts”Submitted Sports Teams Named After Technologies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLove this project. Author has made some other great lists / directories in the past: https://arbesman.net/listoflists/ My favorite being this list of interesting shaped schools and learning organizations: https://arbesman.net/newlearning/
Comment linking /newlearning/
on “Microcosm Industries”Submitted The Overedge Catalog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Humanistic Computation Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Garden of Computational Delights as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech of the Rings: tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech of the Rings: tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constant Decay: a short story about technology, truth, and reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The City-States of America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sports Teams Named After Technologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sports Teams Named After Technologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Garden of Computational Delights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Garden of Computational Delights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A List of Tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Educational Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constant Decay: a short story about technology, truth, and reality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bill Miller’s Mutual Fund Streak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted America’s Age, Empires, and Mathematics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slippery New Year as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Wizard Left Behind: Why Hogwarts fails as an education system as a story · 1 points
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