Ben Tilly

I like learning about odd connections between disparate things. This probably is the oddest example that I know. Broadly speaking, mathemat...

Well I've been an employee at Google for about a month. So this seems like as good a place to reflect for a moment. The first thing that I'...

Nothing To Hide explains why you should care about surveillance even though you have nothing to hide. But it missed the point that most con...

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In a recent Hacker News post I made reference to an interesting teaching experience I had in the mid-90s. This is a longer explanation of ...

Reading how shocked Doron Zeilberger is at the state of modern mathematics reminded me of why I left the subject. Math departments regularl...