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Ben Klemens

Git: it’s a blockchain!

This is a git tutorial, in the form of an introduction to block chains/This is a learning-by-doing exercise in building a block chain, with…

12 min readApr 30, 2024

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Ben Klemens

Data science boot camp, in one Medium post

Dear Colleague,

21 min readApr 29, 2024

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People in 1993 looking at a computer screen, where the file system is presented as a red box with blue boxes on top and connected to other red boxes by green lines.

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Ben Klemens

Best of SXSW 2020

I listened to all 1,054 songs from the SXSW festival (posted before the festival didn’t happen), and here are the twenty or so that stood…

3 min readNov 22, 2020

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Ben Klemens

How I moved to The Cloud

When I go, all that will be left will be my home directory. Might as well keep it safe.

17 min readJul 1, 2020

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A thin layer of clouds covers the moon, where our data will actually be stored.

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Ben Klemens

Best of SXSW 2019

Yes, it took me over a year to sift through the >1000 tracks from SXSW, but here are my top 25 recommendations. I’ve added a few comments…

5 min readApr 5, 2020

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Best of SXSW 2019

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Ben Klemens

Willful ignorance of context, the Nazis, and the ACLU

You’ve already read a lot about Charlottesville in the press, but you may not have followed the back story very closely, or may not have…

8 min readAug 16, 2017

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Willful ignorance of context, the Nazis, and the ACLU

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Ben Klemens

On bringing stories to data, or, the trouble with the Cubists

I did badly in every statistics class.

13 min readNov 24, 2015

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On bringing stories to data, or, the trouble with the Cubists

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Ben Klemens

HTTPS: the end of an era

Mozilla, the foundation that maintains Firefox, has announced that it will effectively deprecate the insecure HTTP protocol, eventually…

11 min readMay 6, 2015

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HTTPS: the end of an era

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Ben Klemens

Ben Klemens

BK served as director of the FSF’s End Software Patents campaign, and is the lead author of Apophenia (http://apophenia.info), a statistics library.

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