My program is hiring: full-time instructor in #sts #histoftech #PhilofScience https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Teaching-Assistant-Professor-in-the-Herbst-Program-for-Engineering-Ethics-and-Society-Science-and-Technology/46349 Not on the committee but I’m happy to answer questions about the program and CU generally.

#models can be a good way to gain #experiential # knowledge of systems too big and complex to be preserved in running condition at original scale.

And also, who needs a reason: just looooooooook at our railways.

#histOfTech #publicHistory #experientialHistory #rail #LTS

Today, I received yet another email trying to goad me into contributing to a an academic book on growing potatoes... Because I published an article on Paul Baran's packet-switching design from 1961, which he named 'Hot Potato Routing'. It's a network routing design!

This kind of spam is either bad ML or extreme sloppiness, and it's profoundly annoying.

Does this stuff happen to anyone else?

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