This is a record of major changes in my web site in the course of 2008, a relatively slow year for this site's evolution – see the inactivity post below. For more recent activity, see this page's successor; for thoughts of sporadic moments in 2008, see the relevant (short) part of the relevant page.
a lengthy essay contrasting investment, usury and gambling, prompted by the economic catastrophies that result from over-application of the latter two.
inactivity
For quite a lot of 2008, I
squandered my copious
free time on improvements to the tuple of prime
numbers (and related infrastructure) provided
by my pythonic study package. That will
take a while longer – the earlier quotes
are all
sarcastic !
On the night of 2008/Jan/26–27, I had the demented idea of using the gamma function, Γ, to extend Pascal's triangle to the entire complex plane. This revealed complications when the inputs are negative integers, whose resolution proved mildly illuminating.
On 2008/Jan/25 I had a frivolous discussion of a body of water in space, large enough to be self-gravitating. I can't remember whether it was Eirik or Johan who was contemplating it as a water sports centre, but it lead to the idea of a reservoir in Earth orbit at a stable Lagrange point of the Moon.
New year tidy-up.
Written by Eddy.