Category Archives: sciences

the strawman market

Posted on Wednesday, 2012 February 01 by Anton

One often hears: [Libertarianism] can only work if all the conditions of a free market economy are present … things like anyone being able to easily enter any market segment, all consumers having near-perfect knowledge of what they are purchasing, … Continue reading →

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blending curves

Posted on Sunday, 2011 July 10 by Anton

I made some progress on an old project: to make outline fonts based on some favorite old bitmap fonts, by automatic fitting of smooth curves to the sequences of dots. (The image above is in Scalable Vector Graphic format. If … Continue reading →

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Friday thirteen come on Friday this month

Posted on Saturday, 2011 May 14 by Anton

Somewhere or other I recently mentioned having heard that, because the Gregorian calendar cycle of 400 years is a multiple of 7 days, the 13th of the month is not evenly distributed and falls more often on Friday than on … Continue reading →

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links from spaaace

Posted on Sunday, 2011 May 08 by Anton

Average illumination near the Moon’s south pole, showing which crater floors never (or almost never) see sunlight. Unfortunately the text doesn’t quantify what the whitest pixel means, i.e., how much time the most-illuminated point spends in shadow. Wobbling time exposure … Continue reading →

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