Medieval scholars, in all of their expertise, often fail to see the
greater sociological rules governing their subjects in spite of having assembled
all the necessary material themselves. In the following – based on their works –
we remind of the great inequalities in times of pandemics, taking the events of
the 14th+ c. Black Death as…[Read more]

a modest philosopher-historian of the sciences re-examines his
own work and the notion of “[scientific] ideology”; the latter’s history – from
18th c. French philosophy through Marx to Foucault – he retraces for us here.

Commits : >1. (Three more participants were part of this project and had
each 1 commit only.) Brief remarks on select other projects.

One hundred Linux kernel developers were reviewed, in total.
Commits : ≥ 935. (This group shares similar traits with early 20th c. college
culture.)

Fifteen years of Linux kernel development are reviewed from the
point of view of gender diversity. Study based on total commits (as opposed to
e.g. mailing list participation) : ≥ 1,400, corresponding to top 50 Linux kernel
developers (including Linus Torvalds).

Continuation of a previous critique of dominant feminist ideology. (”Saint
Sheryl” …).

Some of my previous research (Turing Award, Soudcloud, GNU project…)
as well as others’ will be presented. [Goal : walk people through the steps
of doing research rather than simply present results.]

Introduction to an upcoming presentation, “Diversity in free software
projects : a statistical analysis”. (Rather than propose a quaint definition
I chose to present diversity as both a scientific and social problem instead.)

The young Cavailles : Chapter 1. Childhood.

Before Mamoru Oshii gained international acclaim with the 1995
Ghost in the Shell movie, he had already developed many of its themes in the
two Patlabor movies (1989 and 1993, respectively). Here we introduce the first
of these with a thesis (the fall of the programmer mirrors the birth of the gender-
ambiguous cyborg) as well as notes from…[Read more]

Flaws in Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus.

Commentary, edition of relevant textbooks (DHCP/IP, lambda, etc.).

Legal and police documents; technological and sociological information.

On another young science of many pretenses and ambitions.

We defend here the thesis that Jean Cavailles was not represented by
character Luc in ‘Army of Shadows’, but the two Jardie brothers at once.

Contextualization, including a timeline of Cavailles’ post-War commemoration
and a re-evaluation of Ferrieres’ wider work.

A working version of keepgrabbing.py was reconstructed from archives.

Further notes and documents around this program. Including ”Aaron
Swartz and the social sciences” – a bibliography.

Review of available literature and source materials.