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Monday was a bank holiday: a welcome four-day work week. I took the boys to see the Super Mario Galaxy Movie at the local independent cinema. The film was better than I'd heard, although I'm a sucker for Mario nostalgia, so was always...
The two latest posts have involved invertible matrices with 0 and 1 entries. If you fill an n × n matrix with 0s and 1s randomly, how likely is it to be invertible? What kind of inverse? There are a couple ways to find the probability...
Developer: StanwixbusterYear: 2026Genre: Interactive FictionSystem: Browser PARA//LLAX is an interactive fiction game created by Stanwixbuster for the Videotome 3 Jam about two men who wake up with a hole in their chest. The story is...
It was fun, but I would have preferred more 2001 and less Pixar.
I think the worst feeling out of any feelings are the ones that make us believe that something is wrong with us. You know?Either we don’t belong or maybe we don’t fit in. Or maybe we are too compromised and something about this so-called...
Any moment now, we’re expecting an email that Peter Follansbee’s new book, “17th-Century Essex County Cupboard” will be arriving at the warehouse. So here’s an excerpt from Chapter 8, on decoration. – Fitz The cupboard’s decoration...
When Alfred Kaiser first unveiled Ein drittes Reich (A Third Reich, 1975) and Ein drittes Reich aus seinem Abfall (A Third Reich from Its Refuse, 1977) near the close of the 1970s, his name carried none of the institutional weight that...
On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha. The post Jubensha Con | Weeknotes #438 appeared first on thejaymo.net.
In planning my new course I read through Daniel Bell’s 1973 book, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. It doesn’t really have anything so relevant for the class, so it turns out I won’t be assigning any readings from it. But … Continue...