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I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987. Why did I read such an old book, published a few years after …

Hey folks! Long time, no post! Between vacation, a new job, more vacation, a new school year for the kid, and trips to visit family, I haven’t had much time to write here. What have …

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As usual, I wanted a Skaven class for LotFP, as I have a ton of Skaven miniatures. This allows players to pick a Skaven PC, or create leveled Skaven NPCs if you so wish.Class features:High …

It’s one of the oddities of pop culture that Alan Ladd had his own comic book, dedicated to all his wacky adventures. The conceit was that, despite a life consisting mainly of shooting movies and …

‘It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees.’ Do you know that Joni Mitchell song? ‘I wish I had a river I could skate away on?’ It’s such a sad song, and not really about …

I’m giving this talk at the category theory seminar at U. C. Riverside, as a kind of followup to one by Peter Samuelson on the same subject. My talk will not be recorded, but here …

Let be a non-empty finite set. If is a random variable taking values in , the Shannon entropy of is defined as There is a nice variational formula that lets one compute logs of sums …

This has been on the website for a few months now, but I have joined the editorial board for Experimental Mathematics, following the "reboot" led by Al Kasprzyk. Please submit your interesting and high-quality experimental …

The Family Breaks Up, Living in the Bronx, and Summers in the Catskills Arthur’s mother had relatives living in the United States when the family decided to leave Europe for America. Her brother, Joe Klarreich, …

Solely by happenstance, this observation surfaced out of my memory during the past week: "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." An unexpected message for the New Year? And who might be the …

Photograph by John Trawick. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Spider web – made visible by early morning dew at Lake Murray Reservoir, San Diego, California. Nikon D7100. To see comments on this post click below:

There have been recent controversies and scandals in higher education in the United States. Many contributors and readers of this blog have (Irish) university connections. Is there a discussion needed about the relevance, or not, …

In his series of books (Banking Across Boundaries, Rentier Capitalism, The New Enclosure, Our Lives in Their Portfolios) Brett Christophers has provided a forensic analysis of the fundamental plumbing of the global and (especially) UK …

Steve Gerber had some great ideas. The Legion of Nihilists, occasional foes of Daimon Hellstrom, sounded like one of them, but it wasn’t.According to the cult’s leader, Father Darklyte, the … The post Nihilism and …