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A Critique of The Programming Language J

On July 3, 2016October 3, 2016

I’ve spent around a year now fiddling with and eventually doing real data analytic work in the The Programming Language J. J is one of those languages which produces a special enthusiasm from its users and […]

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Prime Industrial Space

On June 21, 2016June 22, 2017

In their enthusiasm, they built roads (huge, wide things, six lanes or more, sidewalks) for which they had no buildings, through forest, or through meadow. But to drive them, empty and spacious, is a kind of […]

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Strange Truths, Spoken Plainly

On June 21, 2016

Black holes are cold, or so I am told. And the bigger, the colder. So voracious and unspacious, they must take it, all in, all in. Even heat. When the universe gets cold enough, (meaning old […]

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Quick, Probabily Naive Thoughts about Turing Machines and Random Numbers

On May 30, 2016May 30, 2016

Here is a fact which is still blowing my mind, albeit quietly, from the horizon. Turing Machines, the formalism which we use to describe computation, do not, strictly speaking, cover computational processes which have access to […]

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In defense of “The Thin Line Aesthetic”

On April 19, 2016

I was lucky to be one of the guest artists at the Code+Art Student Visualization contest at NCSU library recently, where parts of my generative art work Clocks were displayed. In preparation for the show, I […]

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Notes on `Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Chapter 1`

On January 3, 2016January 3, 2016

For a long time, I’ve been interested in the sorts of questions exemplified by the following example: Suppose we are Isaac Newton or  Gottfried Leibniz. We have at our disposal two sources of inspiration: data, collected […]

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Aping J’s Verb Rank in Puff

On November 27, 2015

This blog post will sketch out some thoughts relating to Puff, a function level programming language I am embedding in Javascript and J‘s notion of operator rank. Rank as it pertains to nouns in J is […]

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Compose is Better than Dot (or: Function Level Programming In Javascript)

On November 10, 2015November 10, 2015

That great minds think alike is a reflection of the fact that certain ideas have an appeal that is, if not innate, then compelling in context. Hence the use of dot notation in the creation of […]

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Quick Thoughts about Interactive Fiction

On October 28, 2015

I’ve recently started a podcast called Text Adventure Purgatory wherein myself and several friends play and talk about Text Adventures/Interactive Fiction. Doing so has crystalized, in my mind, a few thoughts have been in mere fluid […]

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Skunks

On February 18, 2015February 18, 2015

Skunks All this burning and yet still sodden world: dead skunks along the road I drive homeward, each day, raising smells like the underside of lavender, dust and slate, my dry mouth. They are, each day, […]

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