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My own aphorisms someone told me to write down
The Programmer’s Lament: “The world is built upon endless, essential yet trivial detail.” Another one: “Everyone wants to be special but has to settle for being unique.” In order for the world to be interesting there must be error. In … Continue reading
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Midnight Philosophy
Gödel proved that mathematics will remain forever incomplete. The implication is that the mathematics is infinitely rich. Another implication is that all science, being ultimately based on mathematics and logic, is infinitely rich and will never be a finished thing. … Continue reading
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My Hopeless Love Affair with Mathematics
Or why, after many years, I still can’t get over the fact I flunked complex variable analysis I’ve got something to prove. It probably all started many years ago when, as a small child in grade school, I was deeply … Continue reading
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Role Playing Games in Twenty-first Century
I’m a hardcore nerd and, as proof, I relate the following history: I starting playing Dungeons and Dragons back in high school the late Seventies, just as the hardbound rulebooks were coming out. Around the same time, a friend of … Continue reading
Militant Extremists To Radically Impose Conversion (METRIC)
Or, why I decided to form a terrorist cell to serve a sadly neglected cause Okay. How many of you remember when they promised us in grade school, back in the Seventies, that they’d convert this country over to the … Continue reading
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Thoughts to Spur Discussion
Or, what few, vapid ideas Mr. Farlops could think of to spur discussion in his bulletin board. History is not a fractal and history is not a cycle. History is an infinite landscape that always changes, and while looking self-similar … Continue reading
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Interests
Music My musical tastes tend towards the eclectic. Perhaps a good expression to use in characterizing them is “college radio.” The stuff you hear on college radio at 3 in the morning gives a good example of what I listen … Continue reading
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