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Ray Nowell
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Computer security, math, history, and rocks.
February 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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November 13, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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VIN SCULLY: So, here's Paul Atreides from Caladan. On Arrakis, he's called Lisan al Gaib, the Fremen name for The Voice from the Outer World. As a boy, he studied the blade under Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho. As a man, he steps in to face Feyd-Rautha, na-Baron of Geidi Prime.
November 12, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Way back in graduate school (late ‘80s) I came across another Mir published book. It worked out the detailed computation of Kovalevskaya tops and called the genus two hyperelliptic functions “ultraelliptic.” Unfortunately I have not been able to find that book since…
November 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Motivation for all things genus two.
November 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Experimenting with the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw me a picture of what you think my current life looks like.” As a variation of the old-time collage, “you are what you read.”
November 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
November 10, 2024 at 5:05 AM