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Integer Factorization: An Informal Report
Advertisements Here is an informal article, in PDF, about the work I’ve done lately, including some of the new revelations about which I’ve blogged.
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Integer Factorization: It’s Getting Thrilling (Again)
Advertisements I am so excited. Yes, I’m struggling mightily to contain that excitement with a large dose of realism – nah, still VERY excited about this. I’m in the midst of programming a new factorization algorithm and Perl script, jumpfactor.pl. I’ve finished writing and initially testing the code for calculating some initial values, and will,…
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Being Anti-Corporate-Personhood Does Not Make Me Anti-Corporate.
Advertisements I imagine it does, however, cause me to have opinions that exploitive corporations’ owners and beneficiaries (among pastors, pundits, and politicians) might find . . . distasteful. I happily use Google Analytics and other ways to publicize – and even monetize – this little personal blog I’m sharing. Inasmuch as Google or any Big…
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Thankfulness for the Blessed Inner Fire
Advertisements Yesterday, I let some typically silly worries and unnecessary negative thought (aggravation at communication glitches from sources both personal and technological) “cloud my sunny mood” so to speak (h/t Dan Hicks), and make me worry that the inspiration that has greeted me daily in the early morning might actually wane as my life gets…
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Link to Tweets: On Differences/Gaps Between One’s Apparent and Actual Moral Philosophies
Advertisements Before I dive once again into matters mathematical (and I am just about to do so), here is a link to a threaded-together version of a Twitter thread I shared this morning.
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The Presented Order of the Book of Thoth, and the Finite Field GF(79) – Part II, The Story
Advertisements This story traverses the entire Book of Thoth – all 78 cards – according to an order generated by the primitive element 3 of GF(79). That element corresponds, through the assignment process I described in Part I posted yesterday, to Atu (Trump) II: The High Priestess. I have numbered the “verses” of the story…
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This Afternoon’s Excitement: The Basement, and the Bird
Advertisements [Copied from a Facebook post.] I do feel a little sheepish for posting so darned much – what an incredible week or two it’s been! what an incredible life! – but events flowed together within the past hour in a remarkable way, a confluence that seemed a little miraculous. I was doing a tough…
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A Big Thank You I Shouldn’t Have Missed
Advertisements I’ve made a post with this particular “Thank You” before on at least one social media platform. But now, as I am preparing to turn 65 in just a little over a week, with recent amazing events having to do with my spiritual landscape as well as my intellectual, it is time to make…
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Sick Transit
Advertisements “Don’t worry. There’s probably some pill they can give me to control my attacks of genius.” – Gloria Mundy