(b)logophile

The fantastic game Osmos has finally come to Android. In celebration of which, here are a couple of tips for playing it well. They are based on some similar remarks by Mat Jarvis.

During a discussion with Boaz at work about Turing machines,1 I realised something new about them that I find rather fascinating. As a slogan: “The Read/Write Head Matters”; you don’t get Turing-equivalence just by adding unbounded memory to a state machine, you need just the right kind of addressing into that memory as well.2 If [...]

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 10.04 (“Lucid Lynx”) on my brand-new Dell Precision M4500. Not everything went smoothly: I had driver problems that left me with a blank screen and no wireless. There are simple fixes for these problems but Google was only giving me more complicated technical ones. Maybe this post will help someone in [...]

Mule design studio have a design I like: Pretty funny if the association is familiar. Otherwise, probably pretty incomprehensible. [via]

Apparently a local texmf tree no longer requires the ls-R file. Since how long, I know not, nor care I particularly. Nor expect I you to care, particularly, but I was tickled by it. Yet another piece of obscurity and complication getting slightly simpler in the LaTeX world. (Thanks to Micha — I discovered this [...]