Since I posted my thoughts on the collapse of Unbound, author, journalist and drinks historian Henry Jeffreys has written about his experiences as an Unbound author in The Critic. His article, Balancing the books, provides some evidence of things I speculated about in my post, in particular the way Unbound co-founder John Mitchinson seems to […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This is an opinion. I’ve provided links to information available online, most of which is open to interpretation due to a lack of transparency on the part of the main actors. I’m not ac…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Chess960: chess with a random setup| Homebrew Homunculus
This is the third article in a series on Cryptography for the Everyday Developer. Follow along to learn the basics of modern cryptography and encryption. Without randomness, cryptography would be impossible because all operations would become predictable and therefore insecure. — Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Serious Cryptography The cryptographic strength of most systems lies in their ability to generate random numbers that cannot be easily guessed or reproduced, making it difficult for adversar...| Kevin Sookocheff
We can’t control without assuming a context and the context we assume is never going to be true – it’s only ever going to be propositional in nature, it’s only ever going to be ‘a convention that we adopt purely for practical purposes’. In order to be able to control we have to simplify reality […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
IFDB page: The Sword of Malice Final placement: 28th place (of 36) in the 2005 Interactive Fiction Competition The Sword of Malice is not a good game, but it is instructive, in that it provides several excellent examples of potential pitfalls that designers can and should avoid. So in the spirit of making these reviews … Continue reading "The Sword of Malice by Anthony Panuccio [Comp05]"| | >INVENTORY
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Negentropy is the opposite of entropy. It refers to an increase in order, complexity, and usefulness, while entropy refers to the decay of order or the tendency for a system to become random and us…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
