The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Built Our Modern World—and Shapes Our Future
November 6, 2025, at the Linda Hall Library As vividly illustrated by Samuel Arbesman in his latest best-seller, coding is the ultimate connector, providing new insight and meaning into how everything from language and mythology to biblical texts, biology, and even our patterns of thought connect with the history and nature of computing.
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Training Sand to Think: Artificial General Intelligence & Future of Physics
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Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones
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BWSC 2026 Roberts - Why Computers Exist
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Why Peter Scholze is once in a Generation Mathematician
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Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
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How To Become Dangerously Self-Educated (with AI)
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China Just Build What TSMC Said Was Impossible
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Posture, Bone Density & Muscle: A Stanford Doctor Destroys Aging Myths Most People Believe
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FORTRAN: STILL DESTROYING MODERN LANGUAGES
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Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing — Steven Pinker
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I Hacked This Temu Router. What I Found Should Be Illegal.
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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
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The hidden logic behind #, @, & and §
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⑥ Richard Feynman: Probability & Uncertainty—The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature (Remastered)
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Richard P. Feynman: Probability and Uncertainty; The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature
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How To Think SO CLEARLY People Assume You're A Genius
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport
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