i) To think Number “in its being” is to nominate an ontological schema in which numbers (whole, real, infinitesimal…) are given. There is no way to “think Number” without such a gesture of nomination: attempts to derive the being of Number from some other given (the extensionality of concepts; the totality of the thinkable; the [...]
My submission to Roger’s Profanisaurus made it into this month’s Viz (May issue, no. 175).
This may be the first time an entry in the Profanisaurus has ever featured the word “ontological” (or the phrase “radically divergent”). Then again, it may not. One of my favourite definitions from a few months ago contained the word “corvoid”. [...]
Just stumbled across VBCorLib, a backport into VB6 of many of the common classes, exception types etc. of the .Net framework. This strikes me as heroically sad. The saddest thing of all is that I might have occasion to use it. Who’d have thought I’d still be writing VBA, eight years after my first attempts [...]
One about how traumatised he was when someone bared their bum at him at a concert:
One about…well, goodness only knows what, to be honest.
I like that it contains references to the Northern Line, a tube line I had never been on when I first learned the song about ten years ago and now [...]
Kids! Just because you can do this, doesn’t mean you should:
Do as I say, not as I do!
This is the website of Dominic Fox, a writer, musician and working programmer living in Northampton in the UK.
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The CTM Wiki, a user-authored resource for readers of the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi.