To celebrate Nietzsche birthday let’s compute something relevant a bit to to the philosophy he founded, existentialism, and it’s Eastern counterpart (as some people think) – zen. Wolfram Function Repository provides a unique opportunity for the Wolfram Language users to publish their own algorithms and immediately use them from within the Wolfram Language. I have […]
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Idea-nets and uniqueness of US inaugural addresses
What is common between a symphony and a novel? They both progress linearly in time. This is why songs match lyrics and music so well. This seems obvious but comprehension of spacial objects is different. You can look at a two-dimensional painting and your sense of art is driven by the simultaneous perception of different […]
t * sin (t) = Christmas tree
Another code sample from Wolfram Community. I noticed that a discussion about programming a lighted Christmas Tree from a simple equation t*Snt[t] became very popular on Reddit. It is connected to a project a programmer developed. I thought how fast we can make it with Wolfram language? Here is the result with slight flickering 😉 […]
Dancing with friends and enemies: swarm intelligence
This post is based on a thread from Wolfram Community. The rules by Simon Woods are simple: 1000 dancers assume random positions on the dance-floor. Each randomly chooses one “friend” and one “enemy”. At each step every dancer moves 0.5% closer to the centre of the floor, then takes a large step towards their friend […]
Estimated remaining time: monitoring lengthy computations
I just posted on Wolfram Community. For comments – go to the original post. An here is what it is about. I sometimes run lengthy computations, overnight or even a few days. We have built in Monitor function to track the progress of a variable. But I often find it useful to estimate how much […]
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Vitaliy's bookshelf: read
Rare exceptional book. Harry Potter for adults. Long thoroughly enjoyable volume. Magic told as if would be part of society. Cold British political satire soaking every page, every sentence. I would call this “action in slow motion”. Bec...
This is a great little book. I *highly* recommend the audio book edition read by Mark Deakins. A few good qoutes.
“[The Dog Stars] gripped me—it’s the real deal. Heller’s voice is extraordinary and his narrator’s toughness seems to hide...
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of fiction. Exceptional style of writing wraps twists of story-line unraveling the mystery in rich poetic and metaphoric language. Besides dramatic roller-coaster of events and em...
It is definitely a well written book and it is worth reading if you are interested in fresh unusual plot. While twists and turns are NOT predictable and surprise one pleasantly, keep one guessing, the moral philosophy IS quite predictabl...
