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never get outta the boat
i first encountered the factorial function at about age ten. in fact, i recently acquired a copy of the very book i leaned about factorials from. i blogged about it here, mentioning the (classic!)...
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the chinese room
this moving-around-of-letters activity of the past couple of rambles is, or could and (i hope someday to convince *some*body) should be, as foundational in the study of mathematics as elementary...
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it said there’d be some thunder at the well
i drew the i ching yesterday. there are sixty-four “hexagrams” here. each one consists of six “lines”; each “line” is a yin (“broken”) or a yang (“unbroken”). one counts from bottom to top so that for...
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not dark yet
you can’t *be* wise and famous. anyway, not for long: they kill you for it. look at the god-damn record. look at jesus. look at socrates. look at john fucking lennon. look at malcolm, look at gandhi,...
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the raw and the cooked
so here’s a roasted chicken, mostly boned. i’ve been eating the bits that didn’t slide off the bone easily. the wings are something of a pain, so i left ‘em for later. now to put everything away and...
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