Goals for the Summer (minimal priority): write Harry Potter and Stream Fusion, in which Harry learns that magical techniques which involve the creation of large structures and then the collapsing of such structures to simpler structures can often be more efficiently expressed hylomorphically, eliminating the creation of the intermediate structure.

This week on "Know what I hate?": if you answered "zombie sharks", award yourself a prize.

Left Terre Haute and the apartment I've called home for the past three years, nine and a half months earlier today.

(Yes, two days late. Gotta be me.)

Jon's Beginning Exercises for Thinking About Function Equality ( Read more... )

First Google, now Wikipedia. Is it make-your-web-site-hideous month or something?

It turns out that the answer was simple: just use a higher-kinded pattern functor! Makes me wonder why I didn't think of it myself.

"…Draw Two Choose One, otherwise known as Draw Two Choose Mandy Thompson…"

From the pamphlet attached to the US Census: "March 15, 2010 […] Please complete and mail back the enclosed census form today."

From the actual census form: "The Census must count every person living in the United States on April 1, 2010." (and other stuff later making it clear that the date is very specific)

I'll get right on that time travel,

I should make a graph of the Clampverse.

So it turns out that I am not, contrary to prediction, covered in cat hair on a typical basis. Instead, my apartment is covered in clumps of cat hair.

Assorted pictures to come when I can be bothered to upload them somewhere. I should start a mailing list.