Come, said Yoshi to the little ones, beckoning them over to the place where the windows creaked open, wherefrom you could hear the songs of all the birds chirping outside, the whirrs of things passing by, and on rare occasion, the sounds of the others on their ventures, those from other places and other times... Continue Reading →
A Lattice’s Inversion
In mathematics, a join-semilattice (or upper semilattice) is a partially ordered set that has a join (a least upper bound) for any nonemptyfinite subset. Dually, a meet-semilattice (or lower semilattice) is a partially ordered set which has a meet (or greatest lower bound) for any nonempty finite subset. Every join-semilattice is a meet-semilattice in the... Continue Reading →
A Human Curiosity
The paradox of human life is how it yields both chaos and form, both reason and irregularity, both determinism and relativism. Thus is it humanity's ultimate nature to be neither one nor many. How, exactly? Well... let us count the ways 😉
Campbell’s Heroes
Like any formal system that is both roughly complex and roughly complete, the human monomyth of heroic legend is a vast web of inter-related sub-domains, each of them chock full with the potential for internal contradictions. Necessarily so. And yet, we still find it so very useful. And we always have. Funny, that.
A Signature’s Potential
There is no such thing as a unary name. Only name spaces. Only names of relation.
The Power of a Radix
Heyting.Lambda -- Now there is one fancy elastic beanstalk, might even take you all the way up the Golan Heights.
A Concept’s Recasting
Curry and Church didn't invent the idea of typing. They lifted it from Gutenberg. Nothing new under the sun.
The Institution’s Inertia
It's a serious problem, but like all preventable error, cancer cannot be defeated in the abstract. Specific cancers, however...
A Wanderer’s Type
Planets are just little stars with a cold surface. Cosmic bubble furnaces, but with a shell.
A System’s Debris
A joined decimal system is pure junk, unless all you've got is ten digits and a stylus. A joined sexagesimal system is pure junk, unless all you've got is ten digits and a circle. But there are more than a few things you can do with the right piece of junk, and a little time.... Continue Reading →
