Gary Robinson and Virtual Development

August 10, 2030 Snow between the birches, going blue with evening.

Long ago, I had an idea for a sci-fi short story.

HedgeCoin short white paper

My POPcoin project, whose basic principle is described in the POPcoin tab at the top of this page, is coming along nicely.

I’m a Zen Buddhist practitioner.

Here’s something I thought might be worth sharing.

[UPDATE: I have rewritten most of the utility in Rust.

[UPDATED: In Sep, 2024 I updated some of the amounts to reflect more recent market values.]

[Update: I recently heard from someone who says he conceived the idea of using a browser cookie to track people across web sites before me, but who said that he thinks I can still “safely” assume I actually worked out how to do it first.

The story goes that Bertrand Russell, in a lecture on logic, mentioned that in the sense of material implication, a false proposition implies any proposition.

Inspired by “Git in 5 Minutes”, I decided to take things a step further, and create a guide for git that takes even less time to get through.

I needed a way to allow a raw_input() call to time out.

[Edited Dec 6, 2010 to mention another solution based on zip and iter.]

Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered.

The following is quoted from Hao Wang, Reflections on Kurt Gödel, p. 115f.

[Most recently updated: Sep 29, 2024.]