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LinkFest 2016-10-07

James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’ I was introduced to the Gaia Hypothesis by SimEarth on a Mac LC. That was a great game, and it is a neat idea. James Lovelock also introduced me to John Brockman's Edge.org, through

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

I'm a frequent visitor to the PhysicsForums career section, I try to give the advice I wish I had received when I was younger. I saw a really interesting post this week, Don't Call Yourself a Programmer. There is a lot of good stuff here. I

3 Laws Safe Doesn't Help If You Aren't Human

Cold War Rocket Science

As an engineer, I don't really find it all that mysterious how Eisenhower's military-industrial complex got started. The Cold War meant that enormous sums were spent on secret projects far beyond the cutting edge of technology. It was a great time to be an engineer. Maybe

Freefall

Jerry Pournelle recently recommended Freefall, and this is my favorite web comic of the moment. It may have been slow going waiting for it to come out originally, but I breezed through the first couple of years of comics already. This is definitely engineer humor, but it can also make

The True Complexity of Civilization

I found this article some time ago, and I just rediscovered it by accident. So. I ask: how many people does it take, as a minimum, to maintain our current level of technological civilization? I'd put an upper bound of about one billion on the range, because that

Galileo

No, not that one. Galileo from Ghislain Avrillon on Vimeo.