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 series:

i (in e-ik(t-α) – i-n eik(t-α)) / (2πkn+1)

I haven’t the skill to prove this for general n, but then I’m unlikely to need it for n>2.

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wiggly lines

Posted on Friday, 2010 August 13 by Anton

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

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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.

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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 ayatexah. Besides letting the /t/ and the last /a/ do double duty, it preserves the tatpurusa structure of the original: an ayatollah is a something-or-other of God, an ayatexah is a something-or-other of Texas.

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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 for the benefit of the well-connected is too dangerously free, and those who in the name of “free markets” preach the sacred right of the well-connected to enjoy their pork in peace.

I won’t wear the “anarcho-capitalist” label anymore. The people whom I seek to persuade — i.e., almost everybody — associate capitalism too strongly with the meaning given to that word by Karl Marx and his successors, which is fair since they popularized it; trying to rehabilitate it seems a waste of effort.

So, until I find a label I like better, I’m a market anarchist.

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