If you have a loved one missing, I just want to wish you the best. Research shows how ambiguous loss is so devastating and the grief so unrelenting. The disappearance of this young software developer, from Queensland, is to me a particularly puzzling event. I didn’t know Kathlee…

Methuselahs Here are two famous **Methuselahs** 1 -- Acorn and R-Pentomino. Acorn Here it is, a nice little acorn. Let's see what it does. 000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000100000000000000000 000000000000000001000000000000000 000000000000001100111000000000000 0…

This article deals with self-publishing a book, in a variety of forms. It covers writing, editing, proofreading, and has technical points on preparing a manuscript. Writing itself Before you can publish it you have to write it. There are two ways you can do this: write it your…

Quine (the Quine Programming Language) is a programming language for writing quines, or rather, one specific quine. Quine (at Github) is based on a virtual machine that contains a buffer holding the previous token, a main queue which can hold arbitrary tokens, and a standard out…

*Because everyone has a theory about the broken state of education* Can the knowledge or skills in a field be broken down into discrete atoms of knowledge? If so, can we: - Learn those atoms of knowledge (or atoms of skill) - **Assess** our current knowledge/abilities with thos…