2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Douglas Hofstadter wins the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for I Am a Strange Loop.
On April 25, 2008, the Los Angeles Times honored 2007’s most accomplished authors at the 28th Annual Presentation of Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, held at UCLA’s Royce Hall on the eve of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. [...]

The rather difficult font game

For you font mavens out there, the rather difficult font game. It can’t be that difficult, because even I scored 6 and I know almost nothing about specific fonts that aren’t embarrassingly widespread.

Alphabet “K” deemed dangerous

This just in: “The impact for using the wrong shape “K” does not only symbolise tragedy for humans but also God. Take part in coming up with the new “K” alphabet that is non-suicidal shape!” This has been a Public Service Announcement.

Plot-Whither

This week, the Spirit moved me to dig through the boxes of books still unpacked from our move down here from Bloomington, and so I’ve been reading Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies again — since I’ve just started, I’ve been thinking about Seek-Whence and its domain.
Naturally, my mind turned to the representation of the concepts [...]

Open sourcing a slipnet viewer!

(This page will be updated with further details as soon as soon as possible; I am setting up the repository asap)
Hello world!
After reading this fantastic book and playing with this, I think one good way to proceed is to open-source some parts of a FARG framework which are not at its core, but are extremely [...]

Lorenz

I assume you all saw the obituary for Edward Lorenz, but here’s a little article from the New York Times.
Three of the main things that made me excited about science when I was a kid were AI, music composition, and chaos theory — the last one thanks to Gleick’s book. Indeed, just after I typed [...]

The Bonnie & Clyde Microdomain

In rereading parts of Harry’s thesis, I came up with what I think is a rather interesting domain to make first experiments with the ongoing framework… I’m calling it “the Bonnie & Clyde Microdomain” for obvious reasons.
Can you spot the two outliers? What is the justification for their outlier status? Here are some problems:
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Problem [...]

An Illustration to the MusiCat project

My Carthusian cat playing on a Hungarian folk zither.
His sequence patterns are remarkable! – it took me a helluva long time to train him