Jan 3, 2025
Happy New Year!
There is a well-known cellular-automaton based method for generating images that look like caves.
Each cell is either “empty” or a “wall”. The rule is: if the immediate …
Nov 13, 2024
Tarkovsky’s “Sacrifice” is an incredible film. The film successfully captures a shred of the absolute: the truth of the unending process of living and dying. A central image of the film …
Oct 31, 2024
These are my notes from a class at the Berkeley Math Circle on October 31rd, 2024. You can find an accompanying handout here.
Today we’re going to be talking about hyperbolic geometry.
But before we talk …
Oct 31, 2024
These are my notes from a class at the Berkeley Math Circle on October 23rd, 2024. You can find an accompanying handout here.
Today we’ll be talking about spies and secret messages and the question of …
Oct 9, 2024
I renamed the blog again. Now it’s called “Reason in Revolt”, which is a lyric from an English version of the Internationale. It’s available at reasoninrevolt.net. All the old URLs still …