Category Archives: technology

make a joyful noise

Sasha Volokh says “Sunday is also Take A Friend Target-Shooting Day” (responding to his brother’s having done so on Tuesday). Hear hear. In or about 1995-6 I had this conversation: Seth: “Is Vince there?” Anton: “He’s not back from church … Continue reading

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welcome brothers Volokh

Hey, a blog by a law professor. I refer of course to Eugene Volokh, who last week hung up a joint shingle with his brother Sasha, a student at Harvard. (Sasha recently made the news by organizing a gun club … Continue reading

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travelling gamblers cautioned

Bias for heads in euro coins? More study needed.

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my pet programming project

Over several years now I have worked sporadically to catalog hypothetical fullerenes — i.e. convex closed surfaces built of pentagons and hexagons. Last year I tossed out my old work in C to start over in Python, whose list primitive … Continue reading

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area code is destiny?

It has been brought to my attention that 415 is HTTP code for “Unsupported Media Type”. I guess that would include former employees of the Industry Standard.

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an impossible soap-film

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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“Immigrants”

a touching tale of leaving behind the familiar for a strange new world. (August 1996)

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