Star Color and the Evolution of Space on the Screen
How Project Hail Mary's faithful depiction of space changes science fiction forever.
Val Hovey
Here you will find occasional musings I have on math, science, and other things. Portfolio Mathstodon
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The Exception Butterfly
An overview of gracefully composing Maybe/Either/Transformers within Haskell.
A Tour of Haskell
An overview of Haskell from values to monads for beginners.
The Integers In Our Continuum
Could it be the case that integers are an artifact of a computational understanding of reality?
Mutually Assured Recursion
Could AI pose an existential risk in caricaturizing the flow of information in culture?
On Vineyards, Harmony, and Mathematics
The suprising connection between orchards, rational numbers, music, and the universe.
Mathematical Blind Spots
Sometimes the deepest understanding lies in our most basic assumptions.
Digital Astronomy with Cellular Automata
Exploring the emergent structure of Cellular Automata using image compression and UMAP.
Turing’s Hammer - Computation and Chaos
Join me for an exploration of the connections between entropy, information, physics, computation, and mathematics.
Crouching Trig, Hidden Fractal
A surprising fractal emerges as a result of complex floating point arithmetic.