One of the most exciting emerging technologies right now is genetic enhancement: removing deleterious alleles and promoting beneficial ones so that people are genetically predisposed to avoiding heart disease or cancer and to being much smarter than they would be otherwise. Even without more speculative advances in gene editing or...
tl;dr: I made it so you can buy print versions of The Library of Scott Alexandria, Scott’s collected fiction, and Slate Star Codex Abridged. You can get the pdfs and ebooks from the resources folder of my repo here. You can see the three books together here (I have no...
I was rereading the fantastic encyclopedia Mathematics 1001: Absolutely Everything that Matters in Mathematics in 1001 Bite-Sized Explanations over Christmas break. It really lives up to its title!, and is much more accessible than reading random Wikipedia articles. There’s an interesting puzzle, The Unexpected Hanging, posed in the final section...