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Sep 1166 min read
An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry IV
For thousands of years before European contact, the peoples of eastern North America have lived along the banks of the region's many rivers.
May 2029 min read
An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry III
III - A mathematical construction is a mechanical physical act that is directly related to the physical act of constructing a structure.
Apr 30, 20237 min read
Mastodon Posts
Last 5 months' posts on Mastodon
Jan 13, 202316 min read
What is a Chair?
… and what does it have to do with a crow using a tool or the origin of life?
Nov 24, 202222 min read
Complexity, Cooperation, and the Individual
As humans, we live inside our little heads and we have this illusion that we are separate from the world and our bodies.
Aug 6, 20221 min read
Statement of Content
I have been wondering what to call what I’ve been writing.
Jun 18, 202214 min read
Coherent Structures: Part 1, Clouds and Ocean Vortexes
Humans are excellent at seeing patterns and categorizing what they see. Some are only imagination, others form the basis of our science.
Feb 21, 20227 min read
Adventures in NFT land - a manifesto of Retro Generative Art
My wife and I decided to do a project together to create a collection of NFTs.
Jan 24, 202212 min read
Bitcoin is Shitcoin Part II
How does a technology supposedly based on the expansion of human freedom need an autocrat to force people to use it?
Nov 6, 20218 min read
Is Oumuamua a seed?
Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object.
Aug 21, 20219 min read
What is Mathematics?
Just what is mathematics? This is a question that would seem very easy and turns out to be very hard.
Jul 31, 20215 min read
Bitcoin is Shitcoin
This is the techno libertarian ideal. Which will hold true? What could possibly go wrong?
Jun 11, 20212 min read
Along the Rio Flag
Crab Apple trees were planted all over Flagstaff in the 1950s.
Feb 15, 20216 min read
On Individuality
Radical individualism always devolves into an infantile state.
Jan 16, 20215 min read
On Ignorance
ignorance can be dangerous to those who are ignorant of their ignorance
Oct 13, 20207 min read
Herd Stupidity
I have been hearing the term “herd immunity” being bandied about in sometimes very dangerous ways.
Sep 6, 202010 min read
Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems
Epidemics are as old as human cities, the first recorded mention is between 1200 BC and 800 BC in Babylon.
Jun 21, 20206 min read
Maps, Metaphors, Similes, Analogies, and Cognitive Maps
What is a metaphor? A metaphor links two seemingly disparate objects directly,
Apr 4, 20204 min read
Mathematics and the Embodied Mind
What is the mind and what is the body? Do they exist together on are they somehow separate?
Feb 2, 20203 min read
Babies Know Physics
In a previous work (1), I went into some of the implications of singularities and paradoxes in mathematics, physics, and the natural...
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