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Cursive Tengwar | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. October 31, 2014. Recently I’ve learned Tengwar. Which is the script Tolkien invented for the elves to use to write their language. Which is fairly comprehensive. Anyways, I’ve been having a lot of fun writing things down in Elvish. But it’s a careful, delicate script, and writing things down is slow. So I wonder: Can I invent cursive variants of all of the Tengwar glyphs? The main consonants are rather straightforward:. The result looks something like this:. Fill in ...
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March | 2015 | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 22, 2015. But, above all, there is the conviction that the pursuit of truth, whether in the minute structure of the atom or in the vast system of the stars, is a bond transcending human differences. Arthur Eddington, “The Future of International Science”, as quoted in An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War: the 1919 Eclipse Expedition and Eddington as Quaker Adventurer. Recurrent Neural Networks and Chemistry. Top Posts and Pages.
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February | 2015 | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Monthly Archives: February 2015. February 28, 2015. Lambda Circuitry: Another Problem. The following is primarily an excuse to further develop lambda circuitry notation (as introduced in earlier. Let’s consider the “argument-switching” function C. Where C(f,x,y). I wonder what applying this function looks like in lambda circuitry notation? C = λf. λx. λy. f(y,x). What sort of function could we apply it to, in order to check? We could have a silly f. And just returns x.
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Lambda Circuitry: Answers for arithmetic exercises | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Lambda Circuitry: Answers for arithmetic exercises. January 21, 2015. We introduced lambda calculus and a new, visual notation for it, which I call. I also mentioned Church numerals, which allow you to encode numbers as lambda-functions, and we proved that the addition function does what it’s supposed to do. Answers to last time’s exercises. 1 What would the Church numeral for 4 look like, drawn out circuit-style? Four = λs. λz. s(s(s(s(z) ). Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Arthur Eddington Quote | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. March 22, 2015. But, above all, there is the conviction that the pursuit of truth, whether in the minute structure of the atom or in the vast system of the stars, is a bond transcending human differences. Arthur Eddington, “The Future of International Science”, as quoted in An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War: the 1919 Eclipse Expedition and Eddington as Quaker Adventurer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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One line of Python | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. One line of Python. February 21, 2015. Python actually has an awful lot of functionality to allow you to perform certain operations in a nice, concise line of code. For example,. Many lines def has odd(lst): for x in lst: if x%2 = 1: return True return False # One line all even = lambda lst: True in [x%2 = 1 for x in lst]. This is what inspired One-liner. Else: user input = int(user input) if user input n: print "Too big! Elif user input n: print "Too small! If duser ...
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September | 2013 | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Monthly Archives: September 2013. September 14, 2013. Today I took the Dialects Quiz here. Some interesting things I noticed in taking this quiz:. I say “on accident.” Apparently, nearly everybody else says “by accident.”. I call my paternal grandfather Opa, and my maternal grandfather Grandpa. I pronounce “grocery” and “anniversary” with a /sh/ instead of a /s/. Also “bless you” comes out as “bleshu”. Recurrent Neural Networks and Chemistry. Top Posts and Pages.
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November | 2013 | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Monthly Archives: November 2013. November 9, 2013. I confess that, when I contemplate the grue riddle, I can’t help but recall the joke about the Anti-Inductivists, who, when asked why they continue to believe that the future won’t resemble the past, when that false belief has brought their civilization nothing but poverty and misery, reply, because anti-induction has never worked before! 8212; from Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity.
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October | 2014 | Scribblings
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Of spinning plates and serious play. Monthly Archives: October 2014. October 31, 2014. Recently I’ve learned Tengwar. Which is the script Tolkien invented for the elves to use to write their language. Which is fairly comprehensive. Anyways, I’ve been having a lot of fun writing things down in Elvish. But it’s a careful, delicate script, and writing things down is slow. So I wonder: Can I invent cursive variants of all of the Tengwar glyphs? The main consonants are rather straightforward:. Of course, sinc...
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