This page details what I've been working on lately, so that you can find recent changes to my site. It's entirely possible that some links on this page shall fail to work, or fail to live up to their descriptions: that just means I haven't checked in (recent changes to) the pages they referred to as recently as I've updated this page. This page omits things separately covered by the thoughts of the moment section of this site, unless I update one after its moment: this page is about on-going development on the rest of this site.
a lengthy essay contrasting investment, usury and gambling, prompted by the economic catastrophies that result from over-application of the latter two.
inactivity
For quite a lot of 2008, I've
been squandering my copious
free time on improvements to the tuple of
prime numbers (and related infrastructure) provided by my pythonic study package. That may take a
while longer – the earlier quotes
are all ironic !
On the night of 2008/Jan/26–27, I had the demented idea of using the gamma function, Γ, to extend Pascal's triangle to the entire complex plane. This revealed complications when the inputs are negative integers, whose resolution proved mildly illuminating.
On 2008/Jan/25 I had a frivolous discussion of a body of water in space, large enough to be self-gravitating. I can't remember whether it was Eirik or Johan who was contemplating it as a water sports centre, but it lead to the idea of a reservoir in Earth orbit at a stable Lagrange point of the Moon.
New year tidy-up.
Written by Eddy.