Advice for students Here is some good advice about writing mathematics in plain text. LaTeX and client or server side rendering tools for the web are nice, but they're also heavy dependencies. Sometimes text is all you need. Writing Mathematics in Pl ... read more →

Ross-Littlewood Paradox Ross has a vase. Littlewood has many small balls; one for each natural number 1, 2, 3, ... Littlewood first drops balls 1, 2, ... 10 into the vase. Ross does not like that. The incident triggers the following game to start. In ... read more →

Progress so far I've been playing Idle RPG, in as much as one can actually play it, on Newnet IRC. So far, my character bfj the Atheist Paladin has attained level 35. He's got a pair of level 40 leggings which I'd guess keep him pretty warm while roa ... read more →

Blog N+1, Post 0 Here's a new blog, in the tildeverse. A lot of folks in the tildeverse seem to enjoy writing HTML, channeling geocities. While I don't dislike that, I feel like I'm too old to write anything other than markdown and be happy that pand ... read more →