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Americans will tell you with a straight face that they hate bureaucracy and then sit down for hours to watch a game that is only understood by the referees who manage it.

The Ki editor is a pretty great way to melt your brain.

There’s been a recarpeting project at my work which has required everyone to box up the stuff in their offices while the contractors work on it.

Back in January, Jetbrains brought out an “AI addon” for $100/year.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.

My wife and I made a trade last month: I would listen to a book of her choosing and in exchange she would listen to one of mine.

This is kind of a response to “If I hear”design pattern” one more time, I’ll go mad”, but I confess I did not read the original deeply.

As a Baha’i, I had to rescind my party affiliation because it is an aspect of partisan politics, which is forbidden.

I recently read most of this famous article, Demystifying Dependence.

A few other things occurred to me.

I’ve been spending some time the last few days learning the Shavian alphabet.

This is the kind of problem where you could load the whole thing into Postgres and get the answer in about five seconds.

According to Aaron Hsu, the starting point for APL programming is the relational model.

My friend Bill recommended I read CES Letter.

I just found out about these i18n puzzles and figured I’d take a crack at one in J.

I was talking to Alex this morning and the topic of geometric proof came up.

My son’s homework the other day involved the basic statistical functions of mean, median, mode and range.

We had to download a new app to watch the Superbowl back in February, Tubi.

I’m trying to migrate my IT infrastructure to places where it won’t cost much but will be my problem, at least partly so that I don’t feel as much guilt when I see my friend Bill, and perhaps partly just to clean things up.

Hey, remember this one?

Charting chart =. {{ l {~ >. (<: #l =. u: 16b20, 16b2581 + i.8) * y % >./ y }} ] dat =. 10 ?

My dad used WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS to manage our tape library.

I finished Lockhart’s Lament, the 25-page version, and I have some feedback about it.

I recently became aware of continued fractions, because my friend Randy mentioned that they are a representation of some insane thing in topology that he mentioned offhandedly and which sort of made sense while he was talking but I really could not recons…

I live in Socorro, New Mexico, which is near to the Alamo Navajo chapter.

I am just finishing up the book Math Without Numbers by Milo Beckman.

Computer music at New Mexico Tech Around this time last year, my friend Eric Sewell said he was going to teach a computer music class at New Mexico Tech.

There is one official Toki Pona orthography, which is the one based on the lowercase Latin alphabet.

Decreasing sequences It occurred to me that I could think of two ways to generate a decreasing sequence.

We can improve slightly on the Collatz examples of Chapter 10 of Learning J by noting that, while taking a function power of infinity produces the fixed-point, taking a function power of boxed infinity (or simply the empty box) also gives us back the inte…

Let’s talk about ΩeΩ = 1.