The Wind on Your Back
I came across a beautiful example of symmetry recently. Modern times teaches us to look forward to events and to put the past behind…
Five Great Classical Pieces
This post was originally titled “My Top Five Classical Pieces”, but I found it impossible to enumerate any five pieces that made…
Effects of Exercise on Triglycerides Levels
I received the lab report for my blood work today. Not many surprises, which is a good thing. The only thing that I noticed was that my…
Git Intuition
In this post I want to motivate the fundamental data structures that underlie Git. It will not be an in-depth treatment — just enough…
2021
Goals! Strategies! 2021! Complete 40 books How did I come up with the number 40? 40 doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you put it in a per…
Representable Functors
It took me a long time to grok representable functors (Chapter 14 of Category Theory for Programmers), so I hope this post will…