Everyone Who Will Ever Be Born
August 10, 2026 Snow between the birches, going blue with evening. Woodsmoke from somewhere behind her. The t
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Background: Everyone Who Will Ever Be Born
Long ago, I had an idea for a sci-fi short story. I find it very time-consuming to write polished prose, so I never got around to writing
HedgeCoin short white paper
HedgeCoin short white paper
POPcoin Status Report 1
My POPcoin project, whose basic principle is described in the POPcoin tab at the top of this page, is coming al
Zen
I’m a Zen Buddhist practitioner. Practice involves a meditation called zazen . I’
How I Store My Reference Information
Here’s something I thought might be worth sharing. I’ve stored reference information on my personal computer since the 1980s and have see
A Thought On Rust And LLMs
[UPDATE: I have rewritten most of the utility in Rust. I was pleasantly surprised that even the Rust has no garbage collector, not much t
Some Thoughts On Crypto Investing, Particularly Ethereum
[UPDATED: In Sep, 2024 I updated some of the amounts to reflect more recent market values.] Right now, the vast majority of people
On Apparently Being The Earliest Inventor Of The Tracking Cookie
Gary Robinson's account of inventing the tracking cookie in 1995, the related patent, and the technical path to cross-site cookie-based tracking.
Bertrand Russell Proves He's The Pope
The story goes that Bertrand Russell, in a lecture on logic, mentioned that in the sense of material implication, a false proposition imp
Git In Two Minutes (for a solo developer)
A minimal guide to everyday Git for solo developers: initialize a repo, add files, commit changes, view history, and restore earlier versions.
Non-Blocking Raw_input For Python
A Unix-oriented Python pattern for timing out raw_input() by using signal alarms.
Splitting a Python list into sublists
[Edited Dec 6, 2010 to mention another solution based on zip and iter.] Suppose you want to divide a Python list into sublists of
A Set-Theoretic Joke
Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They’re all gone! Oh, well, never mind… [Dr. David Batchelor,
Funny True Story About Einstein And Godel
The following is quoted from Hao Wang, Reflections on Kurt Gödel, p. 115f. I ran across it on a web site that no longer exists: <bloc
One Line Python HTTP Server
How to start a simple HTTP server from the command line with Python 3, plus a few practical tips and shortcuts.