Author Archives: Anton

SEOperstition

Posted on Tuesday, 2016 May 31 by Anton

I get this comment a lot: Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are … Continue reading →

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hilarious title

Posted on Tuesday, 2016 May 31 by Anton

On a private mailing list, a novelist asks for suggestions: what technological hobbies might a bright teenager have, in Oakland circa 1975? Chemistry sets were mentioned, among other things. I may have had a chemistry set at age 8 or … Continue reading →

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adaptive sampling

Posted on Wednesday, 2016 May 25 by Anton

I got an interesting idea today. As you may already know, I’ve been making models of Klein bottles an’ stuff; heretofore they’ve all been in the form of bent rods, but where possible I’d prefer a continuous surface. (A hollow … Continue reading →

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steam and circuitry

Posted on Thursday, 2016 March 17 by Anton

One of my favorite games is Ticket to Ride (despite its silly name), in which a strategic element is choosing tickets: pairs of cities to be joined. The value of a ticket is the length of the shortest path that … Continue reading →

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cross-drafting

Posted on Sunday, 2016 February 28 by Anton

Gail Simone asks: Question of the day: if you could have one piece of art drawn by any living comics artist, not to sell, what artist and what character? I haven’t followed (paper) comics in a long time, but several … Continue reading →

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Neptune’s Gulch

Posted on Monday, 2016 January 04 by Anton

In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt invented a radical new engine and (according to folklore) emigrated to Atlantis to keep his invention out of the hands of parasites. Charles Stross’s novel Neptune’s Brood is about uncovering the true history of the … Continue reading →