Galison’s /Image and Logic/, Part 1: The stickiness of experimental tradition

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Peter Galison's book, /Image and Logic/, has several themes. One traces the multi-decade competition between two traditions in experimental particle physics. I discuss how he thinks traditions work, then use that to investigate a failure of mine.
Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, 1997

Brian Marick, An Outsider's Guide to Statically Typed Functional Programming, unfinished
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Programming languages: Clojure, ClojureScript, Elixir, Elm, Purescript

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Photo of proton-antiproton collision from UA5 collaboration, CERN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Galison’s /Image and Logic/, Part 1: The stickiness of experimental tradition
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