Collected links

1. Linguistic dissection of a paper title.

2. “John Ellenby, Visionary Who Helped Create Early Laptop, Dies at 75” (NYT):

   John Ellenby […] studied economics and geography at University College London and spent a year in the early 1960s studying at the London School of Economics, where he encountered mainframe computers.

3. “The [Leipzig] apartment’s current owner, […], said she tried not to think too much about what had happened there.”

4. “Reinhard Selten and the making of modern game theory”

5. Patrick Metzger’s “Millenial Whoop” (ht: Spotify’s Eliot Van Buskirk):

   Humans crave patterns. […]

   So it is that the Millennial Whoop evokes a kind of primordial sense that everything will be alright. […] In the age of climate change and economic injustice and racial violence, you can take a few moments to forget everything and shout with exuberance at the top of your lungs. Just dance and feel how awesome it is to be alive right now. Wa-oh-wa-oh.