18. April 2020

Cat paintings

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Hello. It’s been a while. Again!

I know people expect computer art from me. Unfortunately, my programming and design concentration has been shot lately. So, I can’t get those to you at the moment.

Instead, I’ve got something else for you: physical paintings!

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30. December 2019

A long email about a lot of unfinished business

My latest newsletter is out. Even though it was partly composed of posts I originally put on Patreon, it still took a lot of writing (for me) to complete.

After reading it back, I realized that it has the tone of a year-end wrap-up. Since that is what is happening with the bloggers, I figured I might as well post it here.

Plus, because it was so hard to finish, so I’m gonna drop it everywhere I can.)

With no further ado, here it is.

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11. October 2019

Russell's Paradox

Back in 1902, mathematicians defined a set as follows:

A collection of distinct objects, where an object can be anything, including a set.

So, here are some sets under that definition:

{ 4, 5, 6 } { a, b, c, d } { 8, a, 🌍, “The concept of FOMO”, 🤔 }

But also:

A = { 0, 1, 2, A }

Where A is a set that has the element A, which is…itself.

For decades, mathematicians thought this was fine, until Bertrand Russell pointed out a paradox.

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