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Leading in to Machine Code: Why? | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Leading in to Machine Code: Why? Jan 02 2014 Published by MarkCC. I'm going to write a few posts about programming in machine language. It seems that many more people are interested in learning about the ARM processor, so that's what I'll be writing about. In particular, I'm going to be working with the Raspberry Pi. Anyway, before getting started, I wanted to talk about a few things. First of all, why learn machine language? Why learn machine code? This is pure, utter rubbi...
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The Latest Update in the Hydrino Saga | Good Math Bad Math
http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2014/01/14/the-latest-update-in-the-hydrino-saga
Just another Scientopia site. The Latest Update in the Hydrino Saga. Jan 14 2014 Published by MarkCC. Lots of people have been emailing me to say that there's a new article out about Blacklight. The company started by Randall Mills to promote his Hydrino stuff. Which claims to have an independent validation of his stuff, and announcing the any-day-now unveiling of the latest version of his hydrino-based generator. There's nothing new here. I continue to think that this is a scam. But what. Gasoline conta...
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January | 2014 | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Archive for: January, 2014. On outing in the sciblogging community. Jan 21 2014 Published by MarkCC. I'm coming in to this a bit late, but since I really do care about the online science blogging community,I still have something that I want to say. This was a thoroughly shitty thing to do. If she's so awful, why do I care that someone outed her? Because it's not just about her. I don't want that to be something that people in my community do. Sorry, but no. People's iden...
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E. E. Escultura and the Field Axioms | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. E E Escultura and the Field Axioms. Feb 10 2011 Published by MarkCC. As you may have noticed, E. E. Escultura has shown up in the comments to this blog. In one comment, he made an interesting (but unsupported) claim, and I thought it was worth promoting up to a proper discussion of its own, rather than letting it rage in the comments of an unrelated post. What he said was:. This is a really bizarre claim. The field axioms are inconsistent? Forall; a ∈ F, there exists an.
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Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now! It's been solved! | Good Math Bad Math
http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2014/02/04/everyone-stop-implementing-programming-languages-right-now-its-been-solved
Just another Scientopia site. Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now! It's been solved! Feb 04 2014 Published by MarkCC. Back when I was a student working on my PhD, I specialized in programming languages. Lucky for me I did it a long time ago! If I was working on it now, I'd be out of luck - the problem is already solved! See, these guys built a new programming language which solves all the problems! I mean, just look how daft all of us programming language implementors are! Julia i...
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Boot all the computers! | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Boot all the computers! Dec 12 2013 Published by MarkCC. Moving on from last weeks operating system post, today we'll look at how a computer boots up and loads an operating system. Let's start with why booting is a question at all. When a computer turns on, what happens? What we're using to seeing is that the disk drive turns on and starts spinning, and the computer loads something from the disk. The question is how does the computer know how to turn on the disk? What the BI...
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Just another Scientopia site. Basics: What is an OS? By MarkCC) Dec 05 2013. A reader of this blog apparently likes the way I explain things, and wrote to me to ask a question: what is an operating system? And how does a computer know how to load it? When someone like me sets out to write a program, how can we do it? To get stuff in and out of the CPU, the only thing that the computer can do is read and write values from the computer's memory. That's really it. Where other devices (like disk drives) can ...
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Farewell, Scientopia! Hello goodmath.org! | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Feb 13 2014 Published by MarkCC. I've decided to leave Scientopia, and go off on my own. Details about why. Can be found at the new site, goodmath.org. The new RSS is here. All of the existing posts and comments have been moved over. I'm shutting down comments here, but you're welcome to come on over to the new site and continue any open conversations! Adventures in Ethics and Science. Candid Engineer in Academia. Fumbling Towards Tenure Track. Mistress of the Animals.
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December | 2013 | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Archive for: December, 2013. More Basics: Compilers, Programs, and Languages. Dec 20 2013 Published by MarkCC. After my "what is an OS? Post, a couple of readers asked me to write a similar post about compilers. Before I can answer what a compiler is, it's helpful to first answer a different question: what is a. A computer program, or just a program, is a sequence of instructions, written to perform a specified task with a computer. Hard to program a computer in terms of its...
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July | 2013 | Good Math Bad Math
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Just another Scientopia site. Archive for: July, 2013. Jul 29 2013 Published by MarkCC. Email from a Cantor crank. Sadly, it's not a particularly interesting letter. It contains an argument that I've seen more times than I can count. But I realized that I don't think I've ever written about this particular boneheaded nonsense! I'm going to paraphrase the argument: the original is written in broken english and is hard to follow. Each digit of Cantor's number is taken from one row of the table: the. Nor wi...
