what’s new, 2024

December 2024

16th • SF • Molly Gloss • The Dazzle of Day
16th • Python • David Beazley • Python Distilled
8th • economics • Timothy Taylor • Unexpected Economics

November 2024

29th • Python • David Beazley, Brian K. Jones • Python Cookbook: 3rd edn
20th • solar PV • new solar PV stats
16th • SF • Victoria Goddard • Petty Treasons
15th • NSC • Physical reservoir computing: a tutorial, full paper
15th • physics • Sean M. Carroll • The Higgs Boson and Beyond
7th • Python • Brian Okken • Python Testing with pytest
7th • engineering • Laura J. Bottomley • Electrical Engineering for Everyone
4th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • The October Man

October 2024

27th • SF • Katherine Addison • The Angel of the Crows
26th • NSC • Modelling and Evaluating Restricted ESNs on Single- and Multi-Timescale Problems, full paper
24th • NSC • An analysis of the relative effects of connectivity and varying coupling interactions on simulated spin networks emulating the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer, full paper
18th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Angel of the Overpass
12th • paleontology • John Hawks • The Rise of Humans

September 2024

22nd • SF • Django Wexler • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
22nd • NSC • Restricted Reservoirs on Heterogeneous Timescales, full paper
21st • mythology • Jackson Crawford • Norse Mythology
8th • SF • Sarah Thérèse Pelletier, Scott James Taylor • Ladyhoppers

August 2024

30th • computing • John Ousterhout • A Philosophy of Software Design
24th • SF con • Glasgow Worldcon 2024 notes
6th • SF • T. Kingfisher • Nettle & Bone
3rd • technology • Michael E. Wysession • The Science of Energy

July 2024

30th • NSC • Creating Network Motifs with Developmental Graph Cellular Automata, full paper
30th • NSC • Parameterising a Computational model of Supercoiling in Plasmid DNA with Biophysics modeling, full paper
27th • lifestyle • Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
14th • SF • Jodi Taylor • No Time Like The Past
6th • SF • John Scalzi • The Kaiju Preservation Society

June 2024

30th • NSC • Entropy Transformation Measures for Computational Capacity, abstract
30th • NSC • Benchmarking the D-Wave quantum annealer as a Sparse Boltzmann Machine: recognition and timing performances, abstract
30th • NSC • A methodology for comparing and benchmarking quantum devices, abstract
28th • SF • K. J. Parker • Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
23rd • cosmology • Gary Felder • The Big Bang and Beyond
22nd • philosophy • Gregory Bateson • Mind and Nature
22nd • SF • Adrian Tchaikovsky • Children of Ruin
10th • ALife/SF • R.U.R. and the test of time, essay (pdf)
9th • dynamical systems, maths • Mason A. Porter, James P. Gleeson • Dynamical Systems on Networks
8th • physics, philosophy • Sean Carroll • The Big Picture
5th • NSC • Exploring physical and digital architectures in magnetic nanoring array reservoir computers, full paper

May 2024

27th • economics • Connel Fullenkamp • Crashes and Crises
8th • SF • Victoria Goddard • The Hands of the Emperor

April 2024

26th • chemistry • Ron B. Davis Jr • Foundations of Organic Chemistry
7th • SF con • Levitation 2024: Eastercon 2024 notes

March 2024

26th • cosmology • Sean M. Carroll • Dark Matter, Dark Energy
24th • SF • Martha Wells • System Collapse
16th • SF TV • Westworld, season 4
4th • NSC • Reservoir Computing with Magnetic Thin Films, full paper
3rd • SF • K. B. Spangler • The Blackwing War

February 2024

16th • psychology • Stephen P. Hinshaw • Origins of the Human Mind
6th • written language • John McWhorter • Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
1st • NSC • What Is Artificial Life Today, and Where Should It Go?, editorial

January 2024

29th • SF • Jo Walton • Lifelode

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