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Jul 13, 2025

Advice for reading math

I’ve been reading math my whole life, but it’s only been in the last decade or so that I’d curl up in bed with a math book, or that reading…

Neko Case, at night, in front of deer. I’m not sure who the photographer is, sorry.

Ben Klemens

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Apr 24, 2025

Top ten pop songs by narrative content

These are songs that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, because, in the span of four-ish minutes, they have good stories with…

Christopher Walken and John Turturro on _Severance_.

Ben Klemens

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Apr 30, 2024

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…

Ben Klemens

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Apr 29, 2024

Data science boot camp, in one Medium post

Dear Colleague,

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.

Ben Klemens

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Nov 22, 2020

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…

Ben Klemens

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Jul 1, 2020

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.

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

Ben Klemens

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Apr 5, 2020

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…

Best of SXSW 2019

Ben Klemens

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Aug 16, 2017

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…

Willful ignorance of context, the Nazis, and the ACLU

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Jul 25, 2016

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 2)

OK, you read Part 1, and are thinking that you’ll give all that music that sounded like an unending wash of notes another chance. So, where…

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 2)

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Jul 25, 2016

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 1)

I have a short stack of ‘how to listen’ books on my shelf over there, and over the years I’ve put decent effort into reading them and…

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 1)

Ben Klemens

Ben Klemens

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BK is the author of several books, including Topology: The Interesting Parts (https://b--k.bandcamp.com/album/topology-the-interesting-parts).

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