5 insanely great books about mathematics you should read.

I’ve been asked over and over for good books about mathematics for a layperson, someone who hasn’t taken advanced courses in university and is more simply interested in learning about what math is, and some of the more interesting…

Hardening your SSH server (opensshd_config)

With all of the NSA spying and privacy items out there, I thought I’d write a quick post on easy ways to lock down your SSH server for people who may want to make some tweaks to their sshd_config on their Ubuntu (or other Linux) installations. This…

Unsolved (math) problems…

Man, I love unsolved problems in any field of science or philosophy. This does not mean I don’t enjoy reading the elegant solutions or re-derivations of solutions to problems solved long ago (I’m looking at my grad studies Galois Theory prof and his re-derivation of everything in…

Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori

Thoughts after a long night chatting with James McTavish and Joe Stauttener on Wednesday.

What is progress?

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2 things I’ve learned from having a newborn for a month.

So, William is now officially just over one month old. As a new father, I’m learning some very surprising and useful tools for dealing with him and maintaining sanity. Most of which revolving around that short period in the evening…

The propaganda of the individualistic ideology or why we need to rebuild our communities.

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My love for good, accessible and clean documentation

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The myth (and lucrative business) of “entrepreneurship”

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