(this essay is an ongoing work in progress) “With the tendential autonomization of the cybernetic instruments and machines vis-a-vis markets, firms, and states, information technology aspires to form the sole basis of both value and power. Quantification and evaluation become both essential and ordinary operations of collective life. The digitalization of organizations, then that of…
Edison Electric Institute projects 25 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030. Meanwhile, EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, that is, EV chargers), is projected to grow tenfold, from about 50,000 deployed in 2023 to 500,000 by 2030. As electric vehicles continue to proliferate in response to the ongoing climate crisis, so too do the…
Introduction HTTP/2 is an update to the classic HTTP protocol which aims to increase network efficiency without requiring large changes to the existing protocol API. It seeks to maintain a single connection between a client and server, as opposed to HTTP/1.1 where a separate TCP session is created for each TCP request. Furthermore, it seeks…
Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1 of this series, we took an extremely high-level, birds-eye view of calculus of a single variable. We did not do any calculations or prove any theorems; if you would like to learn how to do this, there are many excellent Calc 1 courses available for free…
Special thanks to Katelyn Chirdon for feedback and edits Most online resources explaining Maxwell’s Equations are either written for university students recently trained in multivariable calculus, or are written for the general reader and avoid all discussion of math whatsoever. The relevant Wikipedia page is a good example of the first type, and this WIRED…