Placing it side by side with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, almost all the characters are near-identical (though a bit lighter weight). The only two that differ are the zero (made worse by the ellipse), and the lowercase i, improved by a nice rightwards curl.

Not that there's any rivalry between them and UAE, of course.

I thought Google were refocusing Glass towards professional markets (it has a foothold in some medical and engineering places, where the price tag and style are less of an issue). So consumer Glass is on hold; pro Glass is moving forward nicely.

See also the Donahue-Levitt hypotheses that legalized abortion reduces the number of ne'er-do-wells and hence the amount of violent crime. http://pricetheory.uchicago.ed...

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Does nobody check the blurb anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I second the motion for a tech scene in the lake district. It does seem that (the London-based) politicians often forget that there is a whole country there outside of London. Much of the tech industry in the UK is already based in London. If the government wants to support jobs in the sector, then it would do well to look elsewhere. We're nerds, remember. We don't like the hustle and bustle!

That's a really useful way of thinking of it. Also, I'd love for this explanation to appear on TV news.

It's a short story about the "Monte Carlo project" to randomly generate viruses. A pertinent quote:

The theory also included the best containment facilites in the world, and five hundred and twenty people all sticking scrupulously to official procedure, day after day, month after month, without a moment of carelessness, laziness or forgetfulness. Apparently, nobody bothered to compute the probability of that.

Especially his "Cabinet of mathematical curiosities".

"The music of the primes", by Marcus de Sautoy, is also worth reading.

Try R instead. It's FOSS and the graphics are fantastic. (I haven't used Mathematica, but the 2D plots are better than Matlab's. You can also easily link it up to ggobi or Mondrian for visualising multidimensional data.)