LL(1) Parsing: Write your own context-free grammar and see an LL(1) parser in action! (2022)

What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]

New map of the universe’s cosmic growth supports Einstein’s theory of gravity

Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]

Unix: An Oral History

Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds

What a tiny marsupial reveals about the origins of flying mammals: Flying squirrels, sugar gliders and bats haven’t had a common ancestor in 160 million years, but they form their wing flaps using some of the same genetic ingredients.

How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]

What Is Recursion? [pdf]

Solar-powered gel filters enough clean water to meet daily needs

Against predictive optimization

Why you don’t fall through the floor (2018)

The Pacific Ocean’s oxygen-starved ‘OMZ’ is growing, new Princeton research finds

LL(1) Parser Visualization

Princeton lab simulates nuclear war

It Hurts to Ask

$2k Atom Bomb

The Fate of Rome

The Computational Universe Pseudocode Reference

Is There a Curse of the Fields Medal?

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power

Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Philippe Flajolet

Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-Based Science

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

The Last Question by Issac Asimov

New Photovoltaic Tech Could Rival Silicon-Based Solar Cells

‘Fantastic giant tortoise,’ believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos

New research shows that prehistoric Megalodon sharks — the biggest sharks that ever lived — were apex predators at the highest level ever measured

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