Author Archives: Anton

flooded

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 September 21 by Anton

I’ve had seven hundred spam comments in a week. If you got swept up in the purge, please do try again.

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to save some integrating

Posted on Saturday, 2010 September 04 by Anton

For my own future reference, in case I lose the bit of paper on which I jotted it. In a function of period 2π, a unit step discontinuity in the nth derivative at phase α contributes this to the Fourier … Continue reading →

Posted in mathematics | 3 Comments

wiggly lines

Posted on Friday, 2010 August 13 by Anton

A few people will recognize immediately how and why I did this.

Posted in heraldry, mathematics | 3 Comments

so many misspellings, so little time

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 August 10 by Anton

My Wikipedia watchlist grew beyond my ability to keep up with it, so I cut it back from 3082 to 1502.

Posted in general | 1 Comment

neologism of the day

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 August 10 by Anton

I don’t care to log in at Kos for one comment, so I’ll put it here. Daily Kos writes: What natural means isn’t specified. But I’m sure there’s an Tex-aytollah somewhere ready to let us know. Allow me to suggest … Continue reading →

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linky-stinky-dinky

Posted on Sunday, 2010 August 08 by Anton

Some channels will show any old rubbish. Bon mot from Falkenblog: It seems all great advice can be boiled down to one essential truth: Always—or is it never?—do X.

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what’s in a label?

Posted on Saturday, 2010 July 24 by Anton

The whole political establishment has an interest in muddling the important difference between crony-capitalism and free markets. (I ought not to have taken so long to notice this.) The rhetorical tension is between those who say that an economy regulated … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 3 Comments