Author Archives: Anton

For want of some fractional measure of devotion

I’m too literal-minded. When I hear corporate puff like None of this would have been possible without the complete dedication and teamwork of every one of you in this room I think, wow, just imagine all the grand projects that … Continue reading

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Divinearmor

A new participant on Wikipedia, with an axe to grind, wrote to me: I’ve seen your articles. Devout liberal garbage that even your own administrators bash you for writing. Less than a week later, that editor has been banned for … Continue reading

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u-shape-it

Hm, Shapeways has an API. If I were a skilled Web programmer I’d make a page where you can choose the size and frequencies of a Klein bagel model …

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seams in the infrastructure

I had a visitor from beyond an arbitrary polygonal arc. When she got here, she asked, “Did you get my note?” “What, today? No.” “… Oops, I sent it from my Canadian phone. So when I get back to Canada, … Continue reading

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PLG

Got an idea for a transhuman story element. Assume that the technology exists to let you acquire fluency in a language of your choice as easily as you install a font on your computer. (Such technology figures in When Gravity … Continue reading

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soap films in curved space

A few of the many triply periodic minimal surfaces can be generated from a quadrilateral slice through a tetrahedron of mirrors, as refined by Surface Evolver. I had the idea that the same concept, applied to one of the analogous … Continue reading

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passerby

When I die, I’d prefer to slip away unnoticed. Ideally, let there be no record of the dates of my birth and death, only a floruit.

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