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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.