Author Archives: Anton

fun with eigenvectors

Posted on Saturday, 2007 April 28 by Anton

After installing that matrix math library, I spent a week’s evenings pushing several abstract graphs through my “topological coordinates” program and finding, to my lack of complete shock, that none of them had any neat three-dimensional embedding. Then I tried … Continue reading →

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what, if anything, were you thinking?

Posted on Friday, 2007 April 20 by Anton

I hear some surprising things in this job. I trust I’m not violating confidence if I repeat this doozy from a discharge report: At this point the etiology of the [symptom] is still unclear to me; it could possibly be … Continue reading →

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hoist a glass

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 April 03 by Anton

Madhu is getting married in a few weeks — in India. I wish I could go! If each of my readers were to drop a nickel in the tip jar, that should be enough to buy him a drink when … Continue reading →

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AI humor

Posted on Monday, 2007 March 26 by Anton

Technopagans; Freefall

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my bad

Posted on Sunday, 2007 March 25 by Anton

Last Sunday we found evidence that Pillow had accidentally been locked out the night before (though I thought he could get in by another way). He hid under the bed all that day. Monday he emerged, still nervous. Wednesday I … Continue reading →

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Finagle’s Law

Posted on Sunday, 2007 March 25 by Anton

I hoped to have some new math pictures for you (or at least for me) today, but my attempts to install a code library that I need have come to nothing. The makefile invokes gcc with options that version 3.3 … Continue reading →

Posted in bitterness, mathematics, neep-neep | 6 Comments

long-awaited

Posted on Thursday, 2007 March 22 by Anton

Jamie Zawinski has ported his gorgeous screensaver collection to MacOS. My favorites are Demon, a colorful cellular automaton; CloudLife, a fuzzy variant of Conway’s Life; Substrate, whose randomly growing arcs suggest the street plan of an old city; Galaxy, a … Continue reading →

Posted in eye-candy, neep-neep | 2 Comments