Frank Brown Cloud

Max Tegmark

On computing and word magic.

Both computers and golems are given life by the generative power of words.

October 19, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Book reviews, Ramayana, The writing process

computers, death, emet, George Dyson, golem, hebrew, Louisa Hall, mara mara mara, Max Tegmark, met, myth, mythology, Our Mathematical Universe, reparations, sanskrit, Speak, Speak book, Turing machines, Turing’s Cathedral
On perpetual motion machines (and where to find them).

The invention of a perpetual motion machine will revolutionize the world, and Dr. Harvey Trussbloom has done it! Well, perhaps he didn’t invent it, but he found it. Or, no, not quite found it, but he knows where it is. Roughly. Although perhaps it isn’t entirely accurate to refer to it as a “perpetual motion machine.” …

May 14, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

Physics, The writing process

Max Tegmark, multiple worlds, Our Mathematical Universe, perpetual motion, perpetual motion machine, writing