I saw a reference here to this
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Often on Thursday night, at 7pm, an accordionist makes his way to the 61c cafe and plays inventive compositions and skillful arrangements for a couple hours to a room full of people mostly doing their homework with headphones on and their backs turned towards him. Or at least he was maybe a year and a half ago when I last saw him. For the last ( Read more... )

I'm trying again to make sense of Girard's Locus Solum. It really is a beautiful work of literature:

The novelty of ludics is conveyed by our title

Locus Solum

after the book by Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus, that is, "solitary place". Locus Solum
means something like

Only the location matters

since the results presented here establish ( Read more... )

The architecture firm that is designing the Gates Building has a neat set of maps up in the 7100 corridor of Wean. One such map classifies campus buildings by their architectural style: "classic modern", "post modern", "comfort modern", etc., ...with exactly one building categorized as "brutalist". You can guess which one that is :)

[I have been incommunicado for a while, so I thought I'd get back into the information dissemination business with this public service announcement.]GAS ( Read more... )

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for ( August 2nd! )

I finished reading Papa D's novel, Turing. It's a fun book. At times my eyes glazed over during the long computer science lessons, but the sex scenes were pretty hot.

A course in logic by Girard...with streaming video!

And, a paper by Patrick Girard, with the following abstract:

We present a generalization of Segerberg's onion semantics for belief ( Read more... )

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