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Karl Beecher

New podcast: Comedy Convictions

I recently teamed up with fellow comedy writers Jade Gebbie, Owen Pullar and Caitlin Vine to produce a new podcast series, Comedy…

Apr 22, 2022

New podcast: Comedy Convictions

Apr 22, 2022

New Twitter parody account: Double-0 Agents Mailing List

As part of my work studying on my Comedy Writing MA, I’ve learned how important it is for a comedy writer to get into the habit of writing…

Dec 2, 2020

New Twitter parody account: Double-0 Agents Mailing List

Dec 2, 2020

Reading books out of order

Why, this time around, you don’t have to begin at the beginning

Mar 18, 2020

Reading books out of order

Mar 18, 2020

A post about posters

I recently experimented with a graphic design app to mock up some posters for my novel series, Interstellar Caveman. I thought I’d briefly…

Mar 2, 2020

A post about posters

Mar 2, 2020

Interstellar Caveman deleted scene: The tabletop gaming battle

Why one of my favourites scenes simply had to go

Jan 22, 2020

Interstellar Caveman front cover

Jan 22, 2020

Computing books and playing with conventions

A quick commentary on ‘Bad Programming Practices 101’

Mar 12, 2018

Computing books and playing with conventions

Mar 12, 2018

Teach our kids to code? No, first teach them how to think

My talk at re:publica 2017

May 16, 2017

Teach our kids to code? No, first teach them how to think

May 16, 2017

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

Bob & Alice & Carol & … Julius Caesar

How our modern online communications are secured

Mar 17, 2016

Mar 17, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

The Dining Philosophers

Edsger Dijkstra develops an intuitive way to juggle multiple processes at the same time

Mar 3, 2016

The Dining Philosophers

Mar 3, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

Positively Lazy

How laziness drove John Backus to develop programming languages

Feb 18, 2016

Feb 18, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

The Information War

How electronic computers emerged from the chaos of the Second World War

Feb 4, 2016

The Information War

Feb 4, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

The Limits of Computation

Turing finally settles whether a computer can solve any problem put to it

Jan 26, 2016

The Limits of Computation

Jan 26, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

Euclid’s Ancient Recipe

The oldest algorithm still in use which dates back over two thousand years

Jan 7, 2016

Euclid’s Ancient Recipe

Jan 7, 2016

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

Brown Dogs and Barbers

How a crisis in mathematics led to set theory and type theory

Dec 17, 2015

Brown Dogs and Barbers

Dec 17, 2015

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

The Bridges of Königsberg

How Euler developed Graph Theory and gave programmers a whole new way to approach problems

Dec 4, 2015

The Bridges of Königsberg

Dec 4, 2015

Published in
Great Moments in Computing History

Inputs, Processes and Outputs

An introduction to this series

Nov 12, 2015

Inputs, Processes and Outputs

Nov 12, 2015

Karl Beecher

Karl Beecher

Budding novelist. Recovering academic. Available now: INTERSTELLAR CAVEMAN (http://amzn.to/2X9C9RP)

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