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January 27, 2024
MOSIS: The 1980s DARPA ‘Silicon Broker’

This piece is a part of a FreakTakes series. The goal is to put together a series […]

Strategic Computing’s Machine Acquisition Program

Introduction In the early 1980s, as DARPA’s Strategic Computing Initiative was getting underway, lack of cheap computing […]

January 8, 2024
Texas Gas Stations, NIH-Sponsored Post-Docs, and the Foolishness of Artificially Subsidizing Demand

Gas Stations in Texas This is a photo that I recently took outside of a gas station […]

November 28, 2023
The Paperwork Reduction Act Is Terrible, and We Should Eliminate or Reform It

by Stuart Buck The Paperwork Reduction Act sounds boring and tedious, but it’s actually quite fascinating: it […]

November 3, 2023
ILLIAC IV and the Connection Machine: DARPA’s varied approaches to developing early parallel computers

By Eric Gilliam This piece is a part of a FreakTakes series. The goal is to put […]

October 31, 2023
Comments on Draft NIH Scientific Integrity Policy

The NIH recently asked for public comments on a draft Scientific Integrity Policy (You can still submit comments here by Nov. […]