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A sequel to Space Station 76 : "Starship 63," alias "Mad Men in Space," alias … "Ascension," a 3-night miniseries on the Syfy Channel, Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 15-17. See also 1963 in…
"In digital circuit theory, combinational logic (sometimes also referred to as time-independent logic) is a type of digital logic which is implemented by Boolean circuits, where the output is a pure function of the present input…
Continued from Halloween 2012. Suggested by yesterday afternoon's Combinational Delight. "…the output is a pure function of the present input only. This is in contrast to sequential logic, in which the…
The title refers to remarks linked to this afternoon : "An ingenious story line serves to convey the mysteriousness of destiny, the 'grim pen' of fate that encloses Hazel…
For St. Lucia's Day — A book that links the title of today's previous post, Narrative Metaphysics, with Nabokov's "combinational delight."
From "Guardians of the Galaxy" — "Then the Universe exploded into existence…" For those who prefer a more traditional approach : See also Symplectic Structure and Stevens's Rock.
This post was suggested by today's Harvard Crimson story Protest at Primal Scream Leads to Chaotic Exchange. Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker — "Biddies still…
"Confusion is nothing new." — Cyndi Lauper
“I can hardly do better than go back to the Greeks.” — G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology See also Hardy and Brosnan in today's earlier post Stark and…