Author Archives: Anton

next time you hear someone blame Hitler on Darwin or atheism

Nazi racial ideology was religious, creationist and opposed to Darwinism — long and thoroughly documented

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fun with colors

Here, have a couple of Python scripts. Each creates an image file, 2^12 pixels square, each pixel of a different color. colorshuffle.py puts the coordinates of each pixel in Gray code, assigns each bit to one of the color channels, … Continue reading

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SEOperstition

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

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

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

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

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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