Author Archives: Anton

in which I curse my lack of omniscience

Posted on Friday, 2014 January 24 by Anton

I want to push several hundred greyscale images through a threshold filter, so that an output pixel is black or white according to whether the corresponding input pixel is less or more than 1/2 bright. (My goal is a ‘woodcut’ … Continue reading →

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small irregular fullerenes

Posted on Friday, 2014 January 24 by Anton

Shapeways has thirteen models of (the most symmetrical and famous form of) C60, but none of the thousands of smaller fullerenes. So I designed models of the 35 smallest, i.e. up to C36; this includes the smallest with no symmetries, … Continue reading →

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yeah, that makes me a total hermit

Posted on Tuesday, 2013 December 31 by Anton

Yesterday I relayed a message from the local humane society, which contained an email address and a phone number; and the first response I got was “Is she on Facebook?” Phooey. Apparently it’s no longer possible to delete my Facebook … Continue reading →

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to boldly spam

Posted on Monday, 2013 December 30 by Anton

A recent fad in spam is Star Trek filler: Sisko swiveled toward his chief engineer. “What do you think? Is there anybody still aboard the cargo shuttle?” The commander nodded grudgingly. “Yes, I know. But you thought they might steal … Continue reading →

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amazing restraint

Posted on Friday, 2013 December 27 by Anton

Roderick Long defines right-conflationism as defending existing economic structures as if they were outcomes of a genuinely free market (what Kevin Carson calls vulgar libertarianism), and left-conflationism as using those outcomes to attack the concept of free markets. I hope … Continue reading →

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n-k-1

Posted on Friday, 2013 December 27 by Anton

The blog “Degrees of Freedom”, which had been inactive for some time when last I looked at it, has vanished. James, do you still visit here?