The Universe of Discourse
https://blog.plover.comMark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.
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In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude n...
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(Previously: [1] [2]) Welcome to Philadelphia! We have a lot of political corruption here. I recently wrote about the...
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Content warning: rambly Given the coordinates of the three vertices of a triangle, can we find the area? Yes. If by n...
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Suppose a centrifuge has slots, arranged in a circle around the center, and we have test tubes we wish to place into ...
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Then I had two problems… A few days ago I got angry at xargs for the hundredth time, because for me xargs is one of t...
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[ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it seems to be obsolete...
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The quince is so-named because, like other fruits in the apple family, it has a natural fivefold symmetry: This is be...
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A quincunx is the X-shaped pattern of pips on the #5 face of a die. It's so-called because the Romans had a common co...
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As I have explained in the past, my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sens...
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A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold that ran on IBM S...
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A couple of years back I wrote an article about this bit of mathematical folklore: Mathematical folklore contains a s...
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I recently posted an article about the 2013 Philadelphia Traffic Court fiasco, in which most of the Traffic Court jud...
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BuyArtificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback) One of the better books I read in colle...