A Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
My book club recently finished reading Milton’s Paradise Lost. I did a fair bit of reading/listening/watching additional material, and took a substantial amount of notes. Because I have no intention of collecting them into anything resembling an essay, or even a book review, but do think they are worth sharing; and because I was recently inspired by Dave’s Virtual Box of Cards I implemented some…
Programmers love to debate the merits of programming languages, but these debates often devolve into personal preference and hand waving.
My aim here is not to provide a comprehensive overview of Gödel, Escher, Bach but merely to cover what I see as the main threads of the books, as the overlap with my own interests and thoughts. Though I certainly express my opinions and criticisms, I don’t consider these very definitive or necessarily well-formed (though I have attempted to make them somewhat rigorous, and to prune out casual…
I’ve been programming computers in one form or another since I was about 13 but it took me almost 30 years to dip my toes into the world of electronics.
I stumbled across an old project where I was porting Beej’s guide to network programming to Fortran and was reminded of some pain I endured during that effort due to apparently inaccurate macos manpages.
While preparing to set up an aquarium for freshwater shrimp, the main concern I had was around the water:
This is not a post about my overall take on AI, I have neither the energy nor desire to organize those thoughts. The piece I’ve encountered so far that most closely represents my opinions and feelings is AI Ambivalence.
I was lent this book recently by a friend. It is engagingly-written and I found myself easily pulled into it, but it wasn’t long before I started getting a nagging feeling that it had bought in too deeply to the long-held myths about how very dark the Dark Ages were, and how backwards and even depraved were the people of medieval Europe.
Warning, plot spoilers ahead.
This piece began from the above question, my initial belief that “no, C obviously does not have a runtime”, confrontation with various sources online which claimed the contrary, and a subsequent desire to figure out whether they are abusing the word runtime or I am wrong and C does have a runtime or this just a semantic quibble and it really doesn’t matter