Danny Yee's blog - Pathologically Polymathic https://danny.id.au/blog/ links - books, politics, free software, censorship, and more en-au "Vienna aims to reduce the share of journeys in private cars within the city from 25% to 15% by the end of the decade" - Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/vienna-public-transport-tram-network-ditch-cars Wed, 06 May 2026 01:36:00 GMT large language models are mechanized tradition - arg min https://www.argmin.net/p/cosma-shalizi-is-aware-of-all-internet Sat, 02 May 2026 01:43:00 GMT an introduction to ultrafinitism - Quanta https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by-losing-infinity-20260429/ Fri, 01 May 2026 01:23:00 GMT the one-hour city conspiracy is real - StreetsBlog https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/27/urban-truth-collective-the-one-hour-city-conspiracy Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:58:00 GMT why Japan has such good railways - WorksInProgress https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:52:00 GMT mice are fine, just not in the kitchen and not in plague numbers ::P http://danny.oz.au/ mice are fine, just not in the kitchen and not in plague numbers ::P Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:33:00 GMT Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved https://dannyreviews.com/h/Four_Colors_Suffice.html "Along the way Wilson develops enough of the mathematics involved to give the reader a broad understanding of how the proof works." Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:33:00 GMT Cosma Shalizi's random ideas are interesting - Bactra https://bactra.org/weblog/obiter-dicta.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:03:00 GMT Dr Seuss studied at Oxford! - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clywx08zqevo Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:08:00 GMT sinkholes are eating farmland in eastern Turkey - Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/i-live-in-constant-fear-surge-in-giant-sinkholes-threatens-turkeys-farmers Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:34:00 GMT