Our Mathematical Universe – Frank Brown Cloud

On computing and word magic.

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

October 19, 2015

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

On the grain size of reality and, eventually, creative work.

I thought Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe was fun – he describes some good thought experiments, such as a suicidal contraption to test an idea that wavefunctions don’t collapse and we instead experience randomness due to a bifurcation of realities with perceptual continuity in only one of them – but I didn’t like that he…

November 28, 2014

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Physics, The writing process

Borges, creative work, Our Mathematical Universe, reality, Tegmark