Author Archives: Anton

sic transit

A recent update of WordPress has broken a few things around here. Noticed so far: the Classic Editor can no longer save or preview (error 406); and the sidebar does not show up in single-article display. (later) And the comment … Continue reading

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31 frets

Here is the neck of a guitar that I’d like to have made someday, if I should ever develop the dexterity to make it worthwhile. The blue stripes show where standard frets would be, for comparison. The tuning is my … Continue reading

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utopia, population one in many

So here is the current version of my upload/resurrection fantasy, as if anyone cares.

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coming in the side door

Spam comments on this blog have always been concentrated on a few old posts, so I tried disabling comments on some that look unlikely to ever attract legitimate comments. Didn’t work. I guess all that happens when I unclick “Allow … Continue reading

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how to enact a balanced budget

(Moving here from a separate file for greater visibility.) A MECHANISM TO BALANCE THE BUDGET Suppose each member of Congress were to name a budget amount, and the median number is made law. Why the median? Because this is a … Continue reading

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phase-packing

I just thought of a new kind of packing problem, a mutant extension of the Thomson problem. In this version, each particle has coordinates in two independent spaces; in each it is confined to a sphere (of some dimension). In … Continue reading

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O fairest of randomizers

On most numbered dice, opposite sides are complementary; on a cube, for example, they add to 7. As a result, if you have the skill to throw a die so that the {1,2,3} corner lands on the table, the upward … Continue reading

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