Lee Phillips
Physicist and writer.
lee-phillips.org
- lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA Why was this one word added to a New York Times article about #Mamdani?
- “Typst and other #LaTeX competitors” My article about #Typst in the latest edition of #Linux Magazine is now available. www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/...
- lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA The New York Times is willing to go quite far to make Mayor #Mamdani appear palatable to its readers.
- Julia is quickly becoming the successor to Fortran, once the standard for high-performance computing in science, mathematics, and engineering. It’s powerful and fun to use. Get a solid foundation with a good book: lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB... #julialang #physics #programming #mathematics
- It may be easier than you think to make an interactive website using Julia, the best language for scientific computing. Here’s one that simulates the acoustics of plucked string instruments: lee-phillips.org/pluckit/ #julialang #music #htmx #scicomm
- Charlotte Zwerin’s 1988 documentary, “Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser,” is out on a new Blu-ray¹. I used to own a laserdisc² of this fascinating, revelatory and disturbing film³. 1 amazon.com/Thelonious-S... 2 filmstories.co.uk/features/las... 3 criterion.com/films/33809-... #music #jazz
- Astrophysicist @AstroKatie says that “Noether’s Theorem is to theoretical #physics what natural selection is to #biology.” Find out what this theorem is and discover the inspiring and tragic life of the woman behind it: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
- American Scientist: “Some of the most elegant science communication in the book unfolds as Phillips walks us through what symmetry means in Noether’s theorem.” americanscientist.org/article/hidd... Learn about the hidden #history of #physics: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
- My first patch for dwm: lee-phillips.org/bstackmfact/
- Polyglot Jet Finding: arxiv.org/abs/2309.17309 This paper in experimental high-energy physics is a good example of why Julia is popular for scientific calculations. It shows that #julialang is over 100 times faster than Python and even faster than C++.
- Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire lee-phillips.org/questionnair... #science #law
- The book “Practical Julia” contains many working examples in #physics #biology #statistics, and more. I’ve never enjoyed scientific #programming more than after learning #julialang. From simulation to data visualization, it’s a joy to work with. lee-phillips.org/juliabook/pr...
- Reposted by Lee PhillipsThe college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
- And don’t forget the leap second: arstechnica.com/science/2016...
- lee-phillips.org/notweyl “Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from Sabine Hossenfelder ... and complain some more, as she doubles down in today’s otherwise excellent explainer video.
- Klein bottles and nuclear #fusion lee-phillips.org/smiet Some old #math finds an unexpected application. #physics
- The new character-level justification in Typst is amazing. Look at the example at: staging.typst.app/docs/referen... I was skeptical but it really works. Read more about Typst at: lwn.net/Articles/103...
- “The awareness of Noether’s Theorem, the existence of the Standard Model, and the other developments that issue directly from the Theorem, owe a debt to Arthur Eddington.”: lee-phillips.org/NTandEddingt...
- Martianus Capella: fascinating article, wonderfully illustrated, about Precursors to Copernicus, by John Baez: johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/m... You can play with Ptolemaic epicyles at pluton.lee-phillips.org/sliders/epic... #physics #astronomy #history
- Web Applications with Julia: www.digitalocean.com/community/tu... Reprint of my article from the February 2025 edition of “ADMIN magazine”: admin-magazine.com/Archive/2025... #julialang #science #programming #backend #education #linux
- I predicted* in 2014 that #julialang might replace #Fortran for #science and #engineering calculations. I think this process has begun and will continue. Get a solid foundation (for any) language by starting with a good book: lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB... *https://t.co/eWOQwj7IY2
- Why Should I Pay to Read This? lee-phillips.org/whypay/
- My chat at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, with Dr. Anwar Dunbar: t.co/vrxqsTP44c We talk about #writing #books, #science #education, #physics, and stuff.
- Universal praise for _Einstein’s Tutor_ (amzn.to/3YZZB4W): #Science: “Phillips’ writing shines…everyone will learn something new from this book.” #Physics #Education: “Fascinating” London Times: “full of lessons for the international scientific community today”.
- Astrophysicist @AstroKatie says that “Noether’s Theorem is to theoretical #physics what natural selection is to #biology.” Find out what this theorem is and discover the inspiring and tragic life of the woman behind it: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
- Many people (even physicists) are surprised to learn that the universe doesn’t conserve energy, as @neiltyson pointed out in a recent podcast. Even most physicists who know this don’t know who first figured it out. Her story is here: amzn.to/3YZZB4W #history #physics
- “Like GitHub in relation to Git, [Overleaf is] a thin layer of mercenary slime befouling a limpid core of free software.” lwn.net/Articles/102... #physics #science #scicomm
- You can use Typst today even if you need to produce a LaTeX manuscript: lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/ #typt #latex #physics #mathematics #computerscience #science
- Magnification Shape Styling in Lens Insets in Julia lee-phillips.org/customlens/ #julialang #physics #mathematics #visualization
- Polyglot Jet Finding: arxiv.org/abs/2309.17309 This paper in experimental high-energy physics is a good example of why Julia is popular for scientific calculations. It shows that Julia is over 100 times faster than Python and even faster than C++.
- In my chapter on solar energy in the book¹ “Managing Global Warming” I used Ray Kurzeil’s attempt to predict future photovoltaic usage as an example of naive and faulty use of math to make bad predictions. [1] elsevier.com/books/managi...
- Emmy Noether laid the basis for the Standard Model working without pay because she was a woman: amzn.to/3YZZB4W. Here is the obituary of the Mary Gaillard, who wielded the Standard Model, also often working without pay: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s... (archive.li/e6ugQ).
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- Reposted by Lee Phillips‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- My first patch for dwm: dwm.suckless.org/patches/bsta... Updates and combines the bottomstack patch and the stackmfact patch. Dwm is a tiling window manager for #Linux, in about 2000 lines of C. You customize it by modifying the source. It’s fun!
- github.com/bgreenwell/doxx: A new terminal program providing a lovely display of .docx files. It’s great to be able to read these files without firing up a GUI monstrosity such as LibreOffice. Its only defect is the inclusion of an option for “AI” summaries of the document.
- “Practical Julia” is designed to teach scientists how to use the best language for science, with chapters on #physics, #mathematics, #biology, #statistics, and more. amzn.to/3Jn1QdR A review: lwn.net/Articles/966... #julialang
- Astrophysicist @AstroKatie says that “Noether’s Theorem is to theoretical #physics what natural selection is to #biology.” Find out what this theorem is and discover the inspiring and tragic life of the woman behind it: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
- Need your #code to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn #Julia, the modern language for #HPC, with a quality book. Here are some options: lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB... #julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science to #finance and other areas.
- Charlotte Zwerin’s 1988 documentary, “Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser,” is out on a new Blu-ray¹. I used to own a laserdisc² of this fascinating, revelatory and disturbing film³. 1 amazon.com/Thelonious-S... 2 filmstories.co.uk/features/las... 3 criterion.com/films/33809-... #music #jazz
- American Scientist: “Some of the most elegant science communication in the book unfolds as Phillips walks us through what symmetry means in Noether’s theorem.” americanscientist.org/article/hidd... Learn about the hidden #history of #physics: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
- My chat at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, with Dr. Anwar Dunbar: t.co/vrxqsTP44c We talk about #writing #books, #science #education, #physics, and stuff.
- But what is it? lee-phillips.org/ghparty
