Hidden for now. That was all I wrote originally. Later, I changed the 'pending' status of this post to 'published' and allow you to see what is effectively nothing. Wait. Now it's not nothing. This brief post was intentionally empty, somewhat like the number zero -- when it is a placeholder, not a […]
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Placeholder, or, as a mathematician might say: zero. There's nothing to see here. Carry on.
What to do when Roundcube says: Decryption failed: Key password required, and: Could not decrypt this message
Roundcube is great. Easy to get up and running, but it surprises me that I couldn't find the following solution online, so I'm making a post here. When you receive an email (say, from a public key generator) that is encrypted by your own PRIVATE key and you haven't fully configured encryption, it […]
A whole new way into heart meditation reveals... light... on Thanksgiving morning
A year of mindful[1] meditation Here it is early the morning of Thanksgiving 2023 and I just discovered a rather deep heartful meditation which took about a year to learn. The essential idea is quite simple and took only a few minutes to comprehend, but it took a year of preparation so that I could […]
"I want to break this apart and put it back together again" -- while trying to solve the Rubik's cube
This is a weblog post about what makes a hacker, and why there are "good" hackers and "bad" hackers (which is about quality, not whitehat vs blackhat), an insight I discovered while in a brief conversation with my 10-year-old daughter. My daughter has discovered the Rubik's cube, […]
Because of the excluded middle it takes four bits of binary to carry the value of a trinary trit
Since everything in trinary logic can be represented in binary, why bother with trinary? Because of a well-hidden aspect of the excluded middle it requires four bits of binary to carry the full value of a single trinary trit. I never knew this before just now[1]. The thought completed itself as I […]
Awaken the deep: insights from a meditative adventure on the nature of Speaking and Being
First, a brief summary. This morning during meditation I was deep in my heart, listening, when I found myself arriving into a rare condition of clarity. It seemed to me as though I had entered a holy place within my soul, where the veil between heaven and earth is fading. My attention was in a […]
How to visualize gravity correctly
First, how to visualize gravity incorrectly Gravity is illustrated incorrectly in almost all images published over the past century, ever since Einstein determined how gravity works. Only a few artists get it right, while hundreds of books and websites explaining gravity show visually compelling […]
Discovering David Wray and not realizing he was the conductor, and thereby seeing a window into sublime joy
The longer I listen to classical music, the deeper grows my ability to discern a depth of quality which I previously missed. I grow hungry for that depth -- or is it a height? -- of quality, and suffer through many mediocre performances in search of the gorgeous ones. And then I find one and am […]
On writing what is impossible to say, on what cannot be said but only shown
I'm going to write about something that is impossible to say. And I mean quite literally impossible. Even the writing of it -- and your reading -- will capture only a glimpse of what I am communicating, though I will write quite a lot of words in order to provide the right context to that tiny […]
The binary perceptive lens is not for the purpose of dividing everything, but for the purpose of uniting everything
A recent essay where I invented the word trivulet as the name of the fundamental ternary logic element ended up becoming a fertile field for new insights. This is now the second post derived from ideas discovered while writing that one. While explaining how ternary logic is different from binary […]
On how ternary logic is more fundamental than binary
I just wrote the following in a footnote about how to argue that ternary logic is more fundamental than binary: The "Law of Excluded Middle" is equal in strength to the assertion that there is "true" and "false." This means there are three elements required for binary […]
On why to use "trivulet" instead of "trit" to describe computing with the fundamental ternary logic element
In the ongoing labor to develop an internally-coherent way of perceiving ternary logic -- and its most famous derivative, binary logic -- I have come to an understanding of how ternary logic is the proper logic of the continuum; not of particles, division, or separation. Particles, division, and […]
Upon realizing the Riemann Sphere theory I'm working on is gaining traction independently of me
In a brand new article published yesterday on Medium, Kasper Müller writes about The Riemann Sphere: A world where you can divide by zero in a manner which weaves in some insights that have been the endpoints of several private thought experiments. So as I'm reading the article, not only do I […]
Rene Girard's love seeks to save Nietzsche from himself
This essay René Girard: The Last Nietzschean brings tears to my eyes while reading, not so much for the content, but because of a private hypothesis I developed while independently thinking about René Girard and Nietzsche. This essay explores that relationship in enough detail to confirm the theory. […]
Praying the prayer of Batter My Heart, Beloved
The first John Donne poem I ever read, about a month ago, brought tears to my eyes and made me breathe differently. I fell in love immediately. I sent the poem as a text message to my dearest friends, several of whom hadn't heard from me in months until receiving the random Donne. One response was […]
Somewheres about 10,000 hours into solving the Riemann Hypothesis, one encounters Dante's lion, wolf, and leopard
Introduction I'm not good at basic math. I struggle with many things which any decent mathematician aces early. For example, a few elements of calculus still remain over my head, although I have climbed the slopes of that mountain several times. Linear algebra is only just starting to make sense to […]
Most hilarious math paper I've yet read (on p-adics)
I've known about the rather curious set of p-adic numbers for years, even before they started getting famous with perfectiod spaces, but I never knew there were some of the wildest insights into mathematics buried within their "weird" way of thinking. I put weird in quotes here because […]
The Eye of Revelation is The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth
I recently stumbled on a gem of a book called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth. As I skimmed through it, I found it to be a rather unique book, and wanted to know more about how it came to be. Chances are you found this weblog post because you're researching it like I was. Its origins […]
Migrated to a better blog engine; alas, some URLS might break
I migrated to a new blog engine, DotClear instead of OctoberCMS. This resolves the issues I kept encountering with comments being broken. People can now leave comments again, and they won't get lost in the ether. However, in fixing one issue, I've turned up another, which is that some very old URLs […]