Starting to catch up, first with the 2nd half of 2006, and later with the highlights of the first half of 2007.

Okay, It was pointed out on Scott Aaronson's wonderful blog Shtetl-Optimized that ( Read more... )

June and early July 2006 was an amazingly busy and productive month. Here's a hotlinked summary.

(1) I had a poster session entitled "Toward Enumeration of All Possible Economic Systems" at the NKS-2006 Wolfram Science Conference in
Washington D.C. 16-18 June 2006 ( Read more... )

This partly answers a question asked of me when I was 21 years old, by my doctoral thesis advisor Oliver G. Selfridge. When I say "Man" I am echoing and older text, and not excluding Woman.

Excerpt from GENE515What is Man, that he may know Number? What is Number that it may be known by Man ( Read more... )

There are blogs where I've strained the blogmasters' patience with overenthusiastic postings, yet after I've severely cut back on blog-addiction, some have actually asked "What's become of JVP?"

The main thing that's kept me busy, although I still am without full-time employment, is the death of my
father, at age 82, of cancer. There's a thread ( Read more... )

I remember 1975 as clearly as if it happened yesterday. Ted Nelson, the mad genius who invented Hypertext and Hypermedia, spake his Revelation from a waterbed, whereon he had been noddling with an electric banjo.

EVERYTHING IS PROFOUNDLY INTERTWINGLED.

In context, I knew exactly what he meant. But, today, I lightly investigated his neologism.

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Posted by Jonathan Vos Post to Michael Berube's blog ( Read more... )

I haven't updated my LJ blog since about August 2004, due to invasions from the mundane world, such as not having my Math Professor contract renewed, thus suddenly being thrust into search for a full-time professorship in Mathematics or Astronomy. More on that later ( Read more... )

I've been away from LiveJournal for at least a month, working gruesomely long hours (on top of teaching and research) in writing an Appellate Opening Brief, and filing a late tax return (very complicated when you run several small businesses, have erroneous data from a mortgage company on interest paid, and have a son getting tax credits as tiny ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th... But I don't believe in Bad Luck. (knock wood!) As it says on How Stuff Works:
"Like many human beliefs, the fear of Friday the 13th (known as paraskevidekatriaphobia) isn't exactly grounded in scientific logic. But the really strange thing is that most of the people who believe the day is unlucky offer no ( Read more... )

NPR (National Public Radio) just broadcast this morning a story on how Hollywood got it wrong with "I, Robot."

To my delight, they played audio clips of comments by Harlan Ellison (who wrote the greatest Science Fiction screenplay never produced) and Dr. Geoffrey Landis (award-winning Science Fiction author who has experiments on several Mars ( Read more... )