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On catastrophe
From the blurb of a book by John David Ebert Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet.…
Flexibility vs consistency
The "tragic tradeoff" in programming languages: I still remember a wonderful presentation by Damian Conway a number of years ago about all of the great ways Perl 6 could turn into whatever…
New pyramids and villages in the Amazon
The "Lidar payoff" continues! www.wsj.com/articles/... > Many of the sites included complex monumental mounds known as lomas, waterways and reservoirs, in addition to massive pyramids t…
Yield curves
Playing around with Wolfram Mathematica again for a bit: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/accountwolfram/Published/YieldCurve.nb Notebook is viewable here.…
"The founder's gamble"
Honest but scary: > Of course the faith may be mistaken. The gamble come up short. In fact, that's bound to happen eventually if you place enough bets. Nobody is forever the oracle and all luc…
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On disinformation
From a recent article in New York Magazine > “Disinformation” was the liberal Establishment’s traumatic reaction to the psychic wound of 2016. It provided an answer that evaded the question altoge…
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Shen lives
Discovery I remember coming across "Qi" a long time ago, a work of brilliance by one Dr. Mark Tarver. He happened to have a lot of quirky essays as well, and had ... interesting interests.…
A very creative use of Reader-Macros within Common-Lisp
https://gist.github.com/chaitanyagupta/9324402 (enable-json-syntax) (defun example-object () { "someArray": [1, 2, 3], "someBoolean": true, "someNull": null, "neste…