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Talking about technology (mostly)

I thought this was kinda cute:

…I was searching for the first one! Why don’t we have tails? I was surprised to see it listed first.

This is a four part series on how they use supercomputers to do physics: Quantum mechanics to fluid simulation – the story of everything.

I was reading a BSTJ article about the UNIX Time-Sharing System, which mentioned Schumacher’s dictum: that Small Is Beautiful. Turns out this phrase (small is beautiful) was originally posed in an economics context by Schumacher‘s teacher.

Stolen from here: