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Extropianism
| Mandelbrot Set
| Associativity Matrix
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Why we shouldn't feel quite so bad about the future.
| Mu-ENCY, the Encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot
Set. Mostly rather technical.
| Go inside my mind — or in a
separate window if you prefer.
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My Robots
| Numbers and Large Numbers
| Programming Languages
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Building robots (and a few other things) with LEGO® and LEGO® Mindstorms.
| Interesting properties of numbers like 27 and 143;
Googol, Googolplex, 27㉗27, and others far far beyond.
| Automated survey of the popularity
of various computer languages.
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Top Movies | RIES | perl scripts
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My list of top movies of all time, rated by attendance (number of tickets
sold) in U.S. theatres.
| The RILYBOT Inverse Equation Solver. Finds an
equation for any number.
| The language of choice of those
who have that occasional "hankerin' for some hackerin'"
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Other pages of perhaps lesser interest:
Abbreviations: Common phrases that are frequently made
obscure by abbreviation.
Alternative Number Systems : A list of the most popular
alternatives to fixed-point (integer) and floating-point
representations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Computer History : The history of the
development of computers, with a focus on performance issues and the
migration of developments from supercomputers down to desktop
machines.
Data : Miscellaneous small bits of data I want to publish.
Experimental page : For my experiments with HTML and
JavaScript (it's published mainly so I can check it from gatewayed
ISP's like AOL and WebTV)
Filk : Some funny lyrics I've written.
Floating-Point Formats : A list of the ranges and
precisions of various floating-point implementations over the years.
Friends : Links to Web pages of various friends and
co-conspirators.
gnut : A Linux console (text-only) Gnutella client.
a Graph Theory Problem
: A graph theory problem related to wiring multi-processor computer
networks.
History of Music : Focusing on the industrialized
distribution of music as a recent and unnatural phenomenon.
iBook: How to Prevent Sleep : A simple, cheap and
reversible way to prevent the iBook from going to sleep when you close
the lid.
Links : Lots of links without much organization (and
many dead).
Linux rules : Duh.
Mamma Mia : The Broadway musical.
MBTI : A Karnaugh map of the Myers-Briggs personality
types
MIRA : A text-only web browser with unique features,
designed for scholars and others who conduct research on the Internet.
Mispronounced Words : My bid for the "most useless
collection of data on a web page" world record.
Missile : My first Macintosh program also happens to be
one of the few programs that runs perfectly on all past and current
versions of the Mac and MacOS.
Movies : Some material I have written that relates to a
few movies.
Munafo Classical Sequences : An exhaustive index of integer
sequences generated by simple "classical" formulas.
Orrery : A solar system model built from LEGO parts.
Playstation : My notes about Sony Playstation games.
PVC Espas : A musical instrument I have built.
Riemann Zeta Function MP3 File : Music that only a
number theorist would love...
SAMPA : A clear concise way to represent phonetics in
ASCII.
SDRAM : A list of some older SDRAM chip types giving their
speed and size.
SimpleGet : A small stand-alone replacement for the
perl library LWP::Simple.
Slide Rules : Notes about slide rules and photos of
ones I made myself.
The SPEC Benchmarks : Conversion formulas for the
industry-standard CPU benchmarks.
Split Sleep : Sleeping twice per day for greater
efficiency
Solar System : Some facts and figures about the planets
and their orbits.
Tides : A step-by-step explanation of the tides, designed
to explain all the differences that occur from one day to the next and
from one location to another.
xapple2 : My modifications to add accurate sound
reproduction (/dev/audio) to the xapple2 Apple ][ emulator for UN*X
and Linux.
Incomplete Work
The following links represent projects that I lost interest in.
Apple Computer : Notes about the company and its history
(currently just covers the "1984" commercial)
DVCRs : The "digital VCRs" TiVo and ReplayTV.
F161 : High-precision floating-point data types. This
software is complete, but effort to document it is not.
United States Constitution : Reordered so as to place
each provisison of the Amendments in its most logical place within the
original seven Articles.
Abandoned or Obsolete
The following represents writing that I longer consider accurate.
Digital Video : QuickTime Codec performance, efficiency
and quality. (Was accurate around 2002)
GarageBand : Hints and tips relating to the Apple program
GarageBand.
Identity Fraud : How to discover and cancel fraudulent
credit applications made in your name. (This is out of date mainly
because of changes due to the Patriot act.)
Predictions of the Future : Just wait 10 or 20 years
and see how wrong I was!
Stages of Civilization : A brief discussion of
where we've been and where we are headed.
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