Category Archives: computing

How We Know What We Know – Diagonal Proof

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Andrew Hickey

(This post continues a series that I started writing last year. Click on the “How we know what we know” tag to read those earlier posts. In particular, if you’re not familiar with the concept of proof by contradiction, you … Continue reading →

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Note To Publishers: DRM Costs You Money

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Andrew Hickey

I recently bought a cheap e-reader from Waterstone’s, and am very happy with it so far. I’ve been using it to read books from Project Gutenberg, papers from the Arxiv, ebooks from Baen, books by Charles Stross and so on. … Continue reading →

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How We Know What We Know: Introduction

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Andrew Hickey

I’ve been reading up a lot over the last few years about a large variety of subjects, not science as such but how we do science and how we actually know what we know. I’ve written about some of these … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Create a usable ePub file for Lulu.com

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Andrew Hickey

I’ve been having a lot of problems with getting my latest ebook uploaded to Lulu, and I know other people have had similar problems, so here’s what I’ve learned so far. (Currently I’ve *finally* got to the point where they’ve … Continue reading →

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The Grandfather Paradox: Experimentally Resolved?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Andrew Hickey

A revised and improved version of this essay is in my book Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! – hardback, paperback, PDF Kindle (US), Kindle (UK), all other ebook formats I am utterly astounded that I’d never seen this before today – an … Continue reading →

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