Some alternative formulations of Chaos, taken from Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick
The complicated, aperiodic, attracting orbits of certain (usually low-dimensional) dynamical systems.
- Philip Holmes
A kind of order without periodicity.
A post about my own personal 2022 - financial situation, GTD, and downtime.
In March of this year, I started using ledger to track my finances. It works perfectly. Every Sunday, I spend about 15-20 minutes inputting my transactions for the week into a file. Using emacs/ledger-mode to do this makes the whole process very fast and streamlined.
Snow Crash - A book by Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
In 2021, the book came back into vogue following Facebook’s announcement that they were changing their name to Meta and aiming to develop a metaverse. The concept of a metaverse first appears in Snow Crash.
A note on Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)
A simple, beautiful story about economics and class. I came across it after finishing the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin and noticing that Hao Jingfang had won the Hugo award for it the year after him.
Wed 2 Jun 23:18:06 KST 2021
Dear Gopherspace,
I still haven’t gotten the hang of journaling. Perhaps my life isn’t eventful enough. I imagine journals to be writings you look back over later in life to trigger memories of places, times, people, feelings, thoughts, etc.
I just finished reading The Three Body Problem. It’s a fantastic book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Below are some rough thoughts on the book. Probably only relevant if you’ve already read it.
Tom McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
Incomprehensible, except when read as a footnote to Remainder. Then, it becomes an author’s expression of his own struggle with feelings of inadequacy in an (academic-literary) milieu dominated by cults of personality.
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Saga Press, 2019
To be sensitive to signs, to consider the world as an object to be deciphered, is doubtless a gift. But this gift risks remaining buried in us if we do not make the necessary encounters, and these encounters would remain ineffective if we failed to overcome certain stock notions. The first of these is to attribute to the object the signs it bears.