As part of an elaborate S&M fantasy roleplay, I have over the last handful of months been forced to spend significant time developing a real commercial project in JavaScript and TypeScript. During this period, I have learned quite a lot about both languages and how they work. And I’m going to share what I have […]
Category: Computing
Angry dragon problems: when great floods happen, it’s time to overthrow the emperor
Let’s start with debunking the narrative that “dragons are a myth”. The liberal media would have you believe that the Welsh, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Greeks, and even the Eskimos independently invented identical myths about giant fire-breathing reptiles who live inside bodies of water and are the source of chaos in the world. Right. […]
Erlang: LOL
A follow up to “erlang-questions: A tale of push VS pull and authority VS lolberty“… The Central Authority has Decided that the “Erlang community” now officially consists only of people willing to eagerly submit to having the Woke CoC shoved into everything. Anyone suspicious of this sort of thing has no opinions worth hearing. See, […]
Rough intuition for tensors
As part of some original work I’m doing (which I will be elucidating here for you all soonish), I’ve been learning about tensors, a subject with which I am only vaguely familiar. The tensor abstraction is very mathematically weird, because it is stateful. It’s almost like object-oriented programming ported into mathematics. Despite it’s mathematical weirdness, […]
QAnal is exactly Entropist mathematics
The two thinkers who have had the most influence on my thinking are Norman Wildberger and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In a sense, my two big projects are a reflection of each school of ideas: QAnal is Wildberger’s influence, and Entropism is Taleb’s influence. There’s a rough idea here that I haven’t quite figured out how […]
First steps in rational geometry | FQA 4
This is part of an ongoing series called Foundations of QAnal Outline Today we’re going to talk about very basic points and lines geometry. Specifically we are going to address the following questions: What is a point? What is a line? How do we calculate the line that intersects a pair of distinct points (the […]
The SHOCKING truth about determinants
I recently wrote an article about how to code rational arithmetic in Erlang. In the article, I mentioned that the criteria for two rationals a/b and c/d to be equal is if ad – bc = 0. If you are even a little bit familiar with linear algebra, you will recognize that as a determinant. […]
Rational number arithmetic in Erlang | FQA 2
This is post number 2 in an ongoing series called Foundations of QAnal. Outline The goal for today is for you to understand what a rational number is how it is represented in Erlang how the operations are defined basic properties of the operations This is going to be brief (ish). I want to talk […]
Experimental new series: Foundations of QAnal
I may or may not stick with this. I am having horrible writer’s block trying to write this all out in a LaTeX PDF, Erlang, my videos, or in my Revelations. So I’m trying the blog medium. The blog has the “fire and forget” property. So we’ll see. QAnal is my fork of mathematics. QAnal […]
Erlang: How to browse ZX/Erlang source files on Windows
Windows is a profoundly annoying development platform for non-MS languages and a fairly rare deployment target so it doesn’t really get much in the way of attention or tooling. The smoothest Erlang experience on Windows so far is running applications via Vapor (a GUI frontend for ZX), but that depends on applications being developed and […]