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Rambling Thoughts about Comonads

[Slightly revised since first posted.] This entire post is, or is intended to be, a Literate Haskell file. You can copy-paste the whole thing into an .lhs file and run it with ghc (I vouch for it only...

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WebGL

I’ve been learning about WebGL recently, not that I have any particular reason to use it. My first experiments, selected mostly because they look neat, are here: A Hopf fibration viewer. The Hopf...

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WebGL performance

It turns out the performance problem I mentioned in Chrome is entirely down to Float32Array. Known problem, apparently. In particular it looks to me like garbage collection, as it only shows up every...

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

For years I’ve loved ancient history without really knowing much about it. I’ve never been able to keep the Babylonians and Assyrians completely straight, let alone the Akkadians, and what any of them...

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Historical Writing

One more note on the previous post: It’s not fair of me to expect the same level of juicy detail from ancient history as there is (or can be) in classical or modern history; there is simply more...

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Blame Ben Nelson!

In any sort of catastrophe it’s important to decide who to blame. A good scapegoat almost never helps to avoid future catastrophes, but who cares? Blame is fun! So who do we blame for the Sugar-coated...

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node.js

I’ve been looking at node.js, the server-side (more general than that, really) javascript execution environment. My gut reaction is that I like it–I like it a lot. But I think it will take some serious...

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In Other News, Sun to Rise in East

In June 2010, Daniel Klein published a gratuitously silly piece in the Wall Street Journal’s gratuitously silly op-ed section, purporting to show that liberals are stupider than conservatives and...

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Out of Bembo

I just got a copy of Out of Oz from the library, and the first thing I notice is that the typeface is back to the Truesdell of the original Wicked, rather than the always lovely but comparatively...

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Kindle Fire

For the first time in my life, I seem to be the first person I’ve talked to to have the latest electronic toy, one of these. It doesn’t have the enormous coolness factor of something shiny and made by...

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The Thin Place

The borders of the world are pale now,See how they grow very thin.Near to us loom other placesHome to things not quite our kin.What doors to otherwhere may open,And what may come in? An impish goblin,...

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Cat Sonnet

Hugo waits, his every muscle taut, Except for twitching tail uncanny still. Soon, suddenly, he’ll strike, as swift as thought: Soon hapless mouse will be but bloody kill. Then later, after napping, he...

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Yes, 1+2+3+… = -1/12. Sort of.

[Update: fixed an error that, while embarrassing, has no real bearing on anything, except perhaps to reinforce the admonition to be careful...] The internet has been doing a whole lot of hating on this...

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

For years I’ve loved ancient history without really knowing much about it. I’ve never been able to keep the Babylonians and Assyrians completely straight, let alone the Akkadians, and what any of them...

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Historical Writing

One more note on the previous post: It’s not fair of me to expect the same level of juicy detail from ancient history as there is (or can be) in classical or modern history; there is simply more...

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Blame Ben Nelson!

In any sort of catastrophe it’s important to decide who to blame. A good scapegoat almost never helps to avoid future catastrophes, but who cares? Blame is fun! So who do we blame for the Sugar-coated...

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