Gliese 1337
Intellectual musings on Life, Languages, and Computer Programming.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is a 1940 short story by Jorge Borges, translated into English in 1961 and appearing in the collection Laby...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Some Thoughts on Iljena
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Iljena is an alien conlang by Pete Bleackley, also the author of Khangaþyagon which I reviewed previously. The key conceit of I...
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
On the Tjugem Alphabet & Font
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This Bluesky thread with Howard Tayler reminded me that, although I posted progress updates about it on Twitter back in the day, I never di...
A Brief Note on John Wick
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The actual Russian dialog in the John Wick movies is, uh... not great? But, the fact that John Wick is diegetically fluent in Russian ends u...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Newtonian Mechanics in 4+1 Dimensions
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In the higher-dimensional universe of the world of Ord , most of Newtonian mechanics generalizes to 4 spatial dimensions (and 5 total dimens...
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Monday, August 12, 2024
Mapping out Tetrachromat Color Categories
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In Describing Non-human Vision , I wrote tetrachromacy is kind of convenient because you still have only 2 dimensions of hue, so ...
Friday, August 9, 2024
Some More Thoughts on Toki Pona
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What the heck is Toki Pona? After publishing my last short article , several people expressed interest in a deeper analysis of various aspe...
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