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About
This site is written by Leon Bambrick (leodo not show thisnbamdo not show thisbrickdo not show this@gdo not show thismail.com). It aims to be a complete, timeless, annotated repository of things I find sort of interesting. The original blog post launching the wiki is here. There…
Category
The category "Category" is a special category. (Also, the "Category" category is a special category) Articles marked "Category" serve as descriptions for a Category. When viewing a category the content of any article of the same name as the category, with a category of "Category…
Collection of collections
I seem to have a few places where I'm collecting things. - Resources to help build your first product — all resources for building products - TIL — all things I learn as I learn them (particularly technical things) - List of Potentially Useful Concepts — all mental models - Aweso…
function hierarchies
what examples of "well known functions" are there I can survey? Some Sql Server documentation[ has these categories: - Configuration Functions - *Return information about the current configuration.* - (N examples of "Configuration Functions", and more details here...) - Conversi…
Istigkeit
The finger that points to the moon is not the moon — Old Mate Thich Nhat Hanh Istigkeit! I shout, with all my breath, ISTIGKEIT! But for all the world, all that is heard is a whisper. That notorious German word: Istigkeit ...translates, most literally, as "Isness" What "is" …
Joke Genious
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. —Famous Smart Alec, Samuel Clemens Explaining a joke can only ever make it funnier Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen I used to believe that jokes stopped being funny when …
Red String
What is the connection between these three things? - A Chinese legend of an invisible cord tied around the ankle that connects those who are destined to meet. - Kabbalist belief that a thin scrap of woolen thread can be worn to ward off misfortune brought about by the evil eye. -…
This business of arrows
"This business of arrows is a tricky one" —Dependency Graph for Knowledge The best discussion I've seen on the challenge of deciding which way to draw the arrows is from Edward Tufte, in the book "Beautiful Evidence" -- and available online here: Links, Causal Arrows, Networks …
Unbounded Recursion
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Please see Unbounded Recursion (Alternatively see Recursion where you can learn about applying bounds to your recursion, or detecting cycles in referential data structures) there is no general method to determine whether a given program will ever halt or will run forever; this …
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