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Second week back – first attempt at my new 22.5 hour ‘week’. Honestly it is going to take a bit of getting used to. Trying to train myself not to dive into my inbox as soon as I am up is no small feat. It is pretty ingrained. I’ve tried...
Today's links No one wants a permanent gerontocracy: The one policy everyone agrees on. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wolfengitmo; Facebook condemns Google privacy invasion; Michael Moore on bin Laden; TSA v...
Coming to realise that keeping something for later does not serve a purpose.
I’ve written a couple posts lately about reverse engineering the internal state of a random number generator, first Mersenne Twister then lehmer64. This post will look at xorshift128, implemented below. import random # Seed the generator...
Why do so few apps designed for writing have Typewriter scrolling as an option? I love Typewriter scrolling and it seems to be vanishing slowly. Oh well, someone will reinvent it at some point and call it something stupid like static...
The physical form of the book somehow contains not just the pulp and the print, but the ideas and images as well.
Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other...
I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my EPSRC-funded project formalizing Fermat’s Last theorem in Lean. The initial aim of the project was to reduce FLT to theorems known … Continue...
Read the full post at - Norfolk Southern Train in Middle Georgia|Norfolk Southern Freight Train in Rural Georgia I was driving along Georgia Highway 16 in Warren County, and got stopped by a Norfolk Southern train.
Another double weeknote, but again a shortened week. Lots of meetings and progress in the background.
I’m off to the RMA study day on “Embodied Research Methods in Music& Sound” in Liverpool on Tues 18th May. … More
Hey people! 🙂 Yesterday I featured a piece by Kim Robertson, and today, I decided to share one played by Kim’s student – Nadia Birkenstock. This isn’t the first time Nadia is featured in “Bibiel Hears Things”, as I’ve shared quite a few...
This novel blew my socks off. Or stunned me rigid. Or nearly made me cry but didn’t quite make me laugh. It certainly made me furious about the behaviour of at least one of the characters (little Joanne Henderson’s appalling grandmother)...
We are in Thrissur. We left at around 2 AM and reached by 11 AM, with two breaks. The drive was comfortable. The traffic was friendly this time. Echo is getting old, and Uma is more active now. So the breaks are a necessity now. Thrissur...