Wilson Bilkovich
@defiler.bsky.social
Space Barbarian. Software Engineer. Feminist. Reader. I like languages for machines, humans, and others. The gods made Heavy Metal and it's never gonna die.
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Pro ttrpg GM tip: every time you describe a new place or person to the players, conclude with, “… and as far as you can tell, none of this is a dream.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pro ttrpg GM tip: every time you describe a new place or person to the players, conclude with, “… and as far as you can tell, none of this is a dream.”
Fiction I suggest:
Footprints on Sand: L. Sprague de Camp
The Deed of Paksenarrion: Elizabeth Moon
The Winter of the Fisher: Cameron Langford
Earth: David Brin
The Primal Hunter: Zogarth
Rise of the Living Forge: Actus (fun)
Cast Under an Alien Sun: Olan Thorensen
Heretical Fishing: Haylock Jobson
Footprints on Sand: L. Sprague de Camp
The Deed of Paksenarrion: Elizabeth Moon
The Winter of the Fisher: Cameron Langford
Earth: David Brin
The Primal Hunter: Zogarth
Rise of the Living Forge: Actus (fun)
Cast Under an Alien Sun: Olan Thorensen
Heretical Fishing: Haylock Jobson
October 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Fiction I suggest:
Footprints on Sand: L. Sprague de Camp
The Deed of Paksenarrion: Elizabeth Moon
The Winter of the Fisher: Cameron Langford
Earth: David Brin
The Primal Hunter: Zogarth
Rise of the Living Forge: Actus (fun)
Cast Under an Alien Sun: Olan Thorensen
Heretical Fishing: Haylock Jobson
Footprints on Sand: L. Sprague de Camp
The Deed of Paksenarrion: Elizabeth Moon
The Winter of the Fisher: Cameron Langford
Earth: David Brin
The Primal Hunter: Zogarth
Rise of the Living Forge: Actus (fun)
Cast Under an Alien Sun: Olan Thorensen
Heretical Fishing: Haylock Jobson
Screenshot of my recent "Tweet" on the old platform, because this one has a strict character limit.
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Screenshot of my recent "Tweet" on the old platform, because this one has a strict character limit.
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if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼
September 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼
If I am around to see us calculate the 6th Busy Beaver number, I will buy every quantum state in our light cone a round of drinks.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
We prove that $S(5) = 47,176,870$ using the Coq proof assistant. The Busy Beaver value $S(n)$ is the maximum number of steps that an $n$-state 2-symbol Turing machine can perform from the all-zero tap...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If I am around to see us calculate the 6th Busy Beaver number, I will buy every quantum state in our light cone a round of drinks.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
The Quran was an interesting blog post, but wow that guy was angry.
August 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Quran was an interesting blog post, but wow that guy was angry.
The year is 2025. A generation ago, Gopher defeated the upstart "World Wide Web" in the market. Forth remains the most-popular client-side scripting language. Everything has a routable IP address and a cryptographically-attested firewall ruleset.
May 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The year is 2025. A generation ago, Gopher defeated the upstart "World Wide Web" in the market. Forth remains the most-popular client-side scripting language. Everything has a routable IP address and a cryptographically-attested firewall ruleset.
re: Strange Loop, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how relevant Ruby still seems to be. I've been off in Python land recently and wasn't sure.
September 24, 2023 at 5:22 PM
re: Strange Loop, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how relevant Ruby still seems to be. I've been off in Python land recently and wasn't sure.
Just returned from Strange Loop 2023; great conference, great people, great food.
September 24, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Just returned from Strange Loop 2023; great conference, great people, great food.