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Four weeks at number one from w/e 19th February 1983Winter 1983 for me was a period of upheaval. The health of my grandfather had worsened, and a family decision was made to move out of suburban East London and deeper into Essex, to a house large enough to take everyone in. Moving to a new town meant I had to go to a new school, (struggle to) make new friends, …

Psyche presents a reflection on Nietzsche and the shaping of the self in an essay titled “When Nietzsche said ‘become who you are’, this is what he meant.” As the author of the piece notes: “Contrary to popular belief, Nietzsche was not a nihilist set on destroying human values. In fact, the unifying purpose behind … Continue reading "Nietzsche on becoming who you are"

A central problem in combinatorics, probability theory, and analysis is to understand the spectrum of random d-regular graphs G with vertices. The following paper marks a huge leap in our understanding of this problem. Ramanujan Property and Edge Universality of Random Regular Graphs, by Jiaoyang Huang, Theo Mckenzie, and Horng-Tzer Yau. Abstract: We consider the normalized adjacency matrix of a random -regular graph on vertices with any fixed degree and …

Super excited that the international edition of Dancing Queen from Matagot has been announced. It will be available in English and French, 21 June 2025.

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Herring Gull next to the Thames by HMS Belfast this week

Occasionally, I try a perfume for the first time and feel an immediate rush of excitement. It smells so wonderful, so perfect, that I think I’ve discovered a new favorite. But then, on subsequent tries, I can never recreate that initial feeling. The magic seems to vanish, leaving me wondering if I imagined it all. […]

Mesmerizing, delicate and seemingly impossible — this lovely luminescent denizen of the sea has been living in our oceans for more than half a billion years. Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to our deepest seas — and they are old. They are some of the oldest animals in the fossil record.Jellyfish are not fish at all. These gossamer wonders evolved millions of years

In the land of my father, as I recall, there was a pink Ganesha Scotch-taped to the back of the door. I pushed the door open, one hand parallel to the face of the idol, into the twisted light of a blue winter morning and saw him waiting for me there, on the stone steps. He did not have the comic humility of a playful divinity; he did not doff …

Now that we're past the holidays, here's your reminder that NarraScope is accepting talk proposals. (It's been open for a few weeks, but you know, holidays.) The deadline is February 7th. This year we also have a track for academic papers. We're trying to do more with Drexel, our host university this year, so this is a bit of crossover. The paper submission form isn't open yet, so keep an …

Resources used in the creation of this article include RareAfx’ Sample sources page. user18081971 SoundCloud page. user1808191 google spreadsheet. WATMM SoundCloud dump thread. Text files I compiled of Richard’s quotes during the SoundCloud Dump. Discogs page for user18081971. Version 0.6 of my Lanner Database/my gigantic mess of Aphex Twin related files that sorely needs backing up. Aphextwin.net webstore comment section. Thanks to everyone who created and maintained these sources of …

Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day says content moderation died on January 6, 2021: [T]he Insurrection was the first time Americans could truly see the radicalizing effects of algorithmic platforms like Facebook and YouTube that other parts of the world, particularly the Global South, had dealt with for years. A moment of political violence Silicon Valley could no longer ignore or obfuscate the way it had with similar incidents in countries …

I decided to start posting on Dreamwidth for awhile at the beginning of 2024. I thought I needed something to shake up my blog and help motivate me to write more. One of the most prolific periods of writing in my life was approximately 2002-2008 on livejournal. That site's been co-opted and barely exists anymore, but dreamwidth is a long-running community alternative based on the livejournal source code from around …

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t that hard, you just need to….”, but the more I thought about it, the longer the “you just need to…” list got, …