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Poker In Church
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley Have you ever looked closely at a playing card? The 10 of Spades catches the eye with its inky black monolith of quantity. Though that construction is sturdy and familiar, it is also a deception. Let’s examine the visual patterns in playing cards to see what they can tell us about the nature of numbers, and then contrast them with another more universal numerical representation.
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Types and Implicity
Trust: The following is a rumination on some aspects of type systems and programming languages, along with several examples. I anticipate, only now just sitting down to write this, that the tone of the post shall be rather whimsical, although I could be wrong. It’s possible that, after having completed the post and then reviewing it some before publishing, I shall discover that the tone is not whimsical. If that’s the case, I may edit the post a bit, specifically these ruminations on anticipated whimsicalness, with the intent of not misleading the reader.
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setting up a blog
I am replacing my previous page with a generated blog. Currently there’s not a lot here.