News
1/10/2025 11:38 MATLAB vs Julia: Top Choice for Renewable Energy?: A case study in modeling the turbulent wake behind a wind turbine, comparing MATLAB with Julia. The authors conclude that Julia is vastly superior in performance and ease of use.
30/9/2025 13:23 Creating Web Applications with Julia: Digital Ocean has reprinted my article from ADMIN magazine as part of their Tutorial series, with almost no editorial changes.
25/9/2025 8:22 Emmy Noether: The Math Whiz Who Helped Einstein: Investor’s Business Daily interviewed me for this article about Emmy Noether.
17/09/2025 11:31 Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement: My article appeared today in LWN. I test the Typst typesetting system and compare it with LaTeX.
17/9/2025 11:28 This Frustrated New York Pedestrian Calls Out Bad Walkers: My soulmate.
16/09/2025 10:50 Hacker News Minus AI Hype
10/9/2025 13:50 The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything: All “theories of everything” posit entities or symmetries that are not part of our observable universe, often contradicting well-established empirical reality.
8/9/2025 14:52 giants, standing on the shoulders of: Daniel Stenberg’s amusing and instructive keynote at Open Source Summit Europe 2025 in Amsterdam delivered on August 25, 2025. If you happen not to know that everything you do that is in any way connected with computers, including driving any modern car, depends on open source software, listen to this.
05/09/2025 18:05 Document programming in Typst and LuaLaTeX: some examples
3/9/2025 10:57 Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire: Another trap for scientists resembling the use of proprietary software.
02/09/2025 14:25 Einstein’s Tutor in Russian: the Cover: 
I’ve just received the cover of the Russian translation of Einstein’s Tutor.
I’ve just received the cover of the Russian translation of Einstein’s Tutor.
31/08/2025 11:40 Using Typst Today: When You Need LaTeX
29/08/2025 11:37 “Democrat” is not an adjective: If you use “Democrat” as an adjective you’re telling us unflattering things about yourself.
18/8/2025 9:05 doxx: A new terminal program providing a lovely display of (some) .docx files. It’s great to be able to read these files without firing up a GUI monstrosity such as LibreOffice. Inspired by Glow, it can even display a table of contents. Its only defect is the inclusion of an option for “AI” summaries of the document.
15/8/2025 14:51 Catching the moon at the right time with Julia: Wonderful article showing how to use Julia to catch the Moon at good moments for photography, when it is near the horizon while the sky is illuminated by the Sun while the latter is still below the horizon.
29/7/2025 14:37 Moessner’s Magic: A simple and surprising result about sequences.
26/7/2025 14:19 Makie v0.24: “We’re excited to announce the release of Makie v0.24, a major milestone that represents one of the most significant internal improvements to the plotting ecosystem in the past five years.”
23/7/2025 12:01 Viral paper on black plastic kitchen utensils earns second correction: The bad research and reporting that led to panicky discarding of plastic spatulas is shown to have even more defects.
20/7/2025 11:46 New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes: Really interesting exploration of color vision. Follow the author’s advice and watch the video.
