First, I propose a new metaclass of number systems: "complicated numbers." These are number systems that require significant education to understand. Complex numbers are complicated, because of the need to savvy i, but they're probably the least complicated of complicated numbers. I'm thinking more of quaternions and transfinites and stranger ( Read more... )

At my request, chess gave me seven topics to write about. Comment on this post and I'll give you seven topics too.
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At my request, benlehman gave me seven topics to write about. Comment on this post and I'll give you seven topics too.
(1) I primarily know you from AmberCon NW. Why fly across the country just to hole up in a hotel and play games?
I've been going to ACUS for more than a decade, and always heard tales of how cool ACNW was; when I graduated from college in  ( Read more... )

Breaking radio silence to tell my friends (does anyone still read this thing after however many years it's been dead?) that I finally have a full-time job which starts tomorrow. QA scripting for Gale Cengage, which produces a lot of web-based learning products in Java and is heavily into agile development methodologies.
QA is a new turn for me. We' ( Read more... )

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