Spotlight
Was Nietzsche Premature in Declaring the Death of God?
How can we really believe in God for reasons of necessity when, according to our modern thinking, such a thing is unlikely to exist in a cold mechanical universe?
Avant Garde Preview for Avalonia
Avant Garde is a cross-platform AXAML previewer for the C# Avalonia Framework.
Anger is an Energy
The worst thing is to be powerless as things happen or, more poignantly, as things are done to us.
Life as an Anti-vaxxer
As Alinsky once wrote, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
Publish-AppImage for .NET
Publish-AppImage for .NET is a simple bash script deployment utility which calls dotnet publish and packages the output as an AppImage file (or zip) with a single command.
Literary
- Was Nietzsche Premature in Declaring the Death of God?
How can we really believe in God for reasons of necessity when, according to our modern thinking, such a thing is unlikely to exist in a cold mechanical universe? - Anger is an Energy
The worst thing is to be powerless as things happen or, more poignantly, as things are done to us. - Life as an Anti-vaxxer
As Alinsky once wrote, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” - Free-will, Determinism and the Absence of Nothing
We owe much to the science which sprang from The Enlightenment, including the philosophy that behind everything, there is probably nothing. However, modern science suggests that we were premature. - A Safe New World
Experiences from the early days of the emergency first published in August 2020. - The Brigadoon Inn
In the English Lake District, two young men of the post-lockdown era stumble on something that should not exist.
Open Source
- Avant Garde Preview for Avalonia
Avant Garde is a cross-platform AXAML previewer for the C# Avalonia Framework. - Publish-AppImage for .NET
Publish-AppImage for .NET is a simple bash script deployment utility which calls dotnet publish and packages the output as an AppImage file (or zip) with a single command. - Shannon Calculator — .NET Application with Avalonia
Shannon Calculator is a cross-platform application which calculates the Shannon self-information content of a message text or file byte data. - TRAL.RANDOMNESS — Random Number Class Library for C#
TRAL.RANDOMNESS is a random number class library for C#. It provides common PRNG algorithms and a random number generator class. - Asteroids Game in C++/Qt (Update for Linux)
ASTEROID ARCADE is a highly playable open source “retro vector” game written in C++ by Andy Thomas. - Kuiper Twenty Seventeen Theme for WordPress
KUIPER Twenty Seventeen is a highly customisable theme for WordPress
Technical
- Does Number Encoding Affect Logistic Map Results?
The Logistic Map provides a well known demonstration of chaos theory and, specifically, the butterfly effect. - EVOLGEN — Genetic Algorithm — TSP 20,000 Cities
Results are presented of a genetic algorithm (GA) solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) with 20,000 city locations. - Statistics – Confidence Intervals
I wrote the following many years ago when I learning basic statistics. It still serves as a reference occasionally and I thought I’d put it online. - Statistics – Mean, Distribution and Variance
I wrote the following many years ago when I learning basic statistics. It still serves as a reference occasionally and I thought I’d put it online. - Solving Monster 10K City TSP with a Genetic Algorithm
A genetic algorithm is a search optimization technique which derives inspiration from biological notions concerning genetics and evolution. - WordPress Theme Test Card
The following is a “test card” which displays various web-page elements used to visually inspect a wordpress theme. It was used in the development of KUIPER Twenty Seventeen. Text Elements …