Josh Kerr
Medium recently shut down their third-party API without any notice. I was immediately incensed and decided to migrate my blog away from Medium. You can read more angst on this post and followup discussion on HackerNews about why I left.
This article will show you how to migrate your … Read the rest
What if I told you that the Universe would repeat itself? I’m crazy, right?
One of the tools used by the FBI to investigate national security threats is called a National Security Letter (NSL). The NSL is designed to allow the government to request and monitor data from an ISP secretly. Often the letter will include a gag order that prevents the ISP from … Read the rest
Medium is a great story telling platform but it falls short for publishing any serious science and math related articles. The big issue with this type of content on Medium is that it relies on math which can’t be easily rendered on Medium. Most writing platforms struggle with math because
WARNING — I’m not a mathematician so I probably made a bunch of errors. Please leave corrections in the comments.
A few years ago I stumbled upon an article by famed computer scientist and quantum physics expert Scott Aaronson titled “Who can name the bigger number?” … Read the rest
A few years ago famed MIT computer science professor Scott Aaronson proposed a contest on who could name the bigger number.
Its a simple premise, two people go up to a whiteboard and take turns trying to write a bigger number with the winner being the one who wrote the … Read the rest
I witnessed the attacks of September 11th 2001 first hand in New York City as the World Trade Center towers collapsed before my very own eyes. It was a painful day for many people all over the world but it was uniquely different for those of us that lived in … Read the rest
This is my list of the greatest music artists of all time. My only criteria is that they have to be modern (so Beethoven doesn’t qualify.) For each selection I’ve listed the reasons why they are on my list. I mostly looked at each artist’s influence both in terms of … Read the rest
I attended a wedding a couple of weekends ago at Trump’s Mar A Lago estate & club in Palm Beach Florida. After a glorious wedding party I stood in the front driveway waiting for my Uber to take me back to my hotel. One of the … Read the rest
I love to write on Medium. The supplied editor is gorgeous and makes it drop dead easy to produce beautiful articles. Unfortunately, the editor doesn’t do much to help with my atrocious grammar. Without proper grammar, … Read the rest
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