Unbufferedness is the core of stovepiping.

The wilderness is experienced as an on-going threat of shear.

Shortcuts undermine stability. (Hence the saying, “There are no shortcuts.”)

Non-constant linear functions are the core of injective functions.

Training defaults to a set of warnings.

Abstraction is that which militates against the phenomenon of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.

Numbers to Know

The problem of non-referring names has a lot in common with the notion of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ in connection with theatrical productions. The sand trap of inferring existence from reference is a widely-used propaganda technique. Here is a mathematical model for names. Definition 1. A name is any monotonic collection of sets, whose … Continue reading On the problem of non-referring names →

Penelope singing ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’

The Virginian is just a latter-day Odysseus.