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Current collection
Original gifts for computer science enthusiasts, programmers, and anyone curious about the ideas that made modern computing possible. This collection features illustrations from my essay Why Computers Work.
An original illustration linking the birth of modern computing with one of its most enduring symbols. The bitten apple becomes both a dark historical echo and a computing icon.
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A visual lineage of ideas leading to the modern digital computer, from Aristotle and Leibniz to Turing, von Neumann, and Shannon.
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Information is pattern: 118 chemical elements, 26 letters, 7 musical notes, 4 DNA bases, 3 primary colors. At its simplest, a pattern needs only two symbols: 0 and 1. Any information can be encoded in binary.
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“All processes, whether they are produced by human effort or occur spontaneously in nature, can be viewed as computations.”Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science.
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Humpty was certain he would never fall. Perhaps he had sat on that wall so long that everyone else believed it too. Then he fell, and suddenly Humpty was news: a great surprise followed by an irreversible mess. Information entropy meets physical entropy.
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Gifts inspired by the strange and fascinating history of money, markets, and banking.
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Gifts for writers and readers inspired by plot, character, point of view, and the mechanics of storytelling.