For some time now this site has been hosted on a virtual server provided by VPSLink. When I first set that service up, and for quite a while after, I was very impressed with VPSLink’s solid customer support and quick resolution of issues. Friday, however, the server went down, and it took over a day […]
I’ve been surfing a lot of physics forums lately, and I’ve run across several “misguided” interpretations of the law of large numbers. For example: The law of large numbers is rigorously provable from the axioms pf probability. What it says is if a trial (experiment or whatever) is repeated a large number of times, independently […]
Bohmian Mechanics, also referred to as De Broglie-Bohm theory or pilot wave theory is often presented as a completely deterministic theory that matches all of the predictions of quantum theory. Strictly speaking this is true – all of the state variables of a Bohmian model evolve in a precise way specified by equations associated with […]
Bitcoin has been getting a lot of press over the last few years. I love the idea behind bitcoin, and the goals that it tries to achieve. I don’t, however, think that is our “final answer” on the digital currency front. I’ll quickly run through the pros and cons of bitcoin from my perspective. What’s […]
I have some new directions I want to go with the site. These things will show up soon, but in the meantime I chose a new WordPress theme that seemed appropriate, and I re-wrote the “About Kip” page. The theme is just a framework right now, but over the next few days I’ll be putting […]
I’m working on an assembly language implementation of a code-threaded Forth for Linux. I’m using fasm (flat assembler) and will use no external code whatsoever (i.e., Linux system calls only). Honestly, this feel a little like coming home to me; programming like it used to be. The Linux system call mechanism interfaces the same way […]
Technology has changed our world. No doubt about it. Starting with the Industrial Revolution, and moving by fits and starts but never idle for long, technology has come to define our economies, our cultures, and our day-to-day lives. We tend to think of this as a good thing, and in many respects it is. Standards […]
Recently my day job has brought Matplotlib to my attention. I’m quite impressed with this package – it offers a very straightforward way to deploy graphical information via the browser. For quite a few years I’ve wished I could write my own web-based electronics design suite (schematic capture, printed circuit board layout, etc.), but never […]
Here is a useful paper on making encrypted content appear random.
Enough of the fear – the technology exists to establish completely private communication channels laid right on top of the existing internet. I will be talking here about how, and I will be constructing such a system and making it freely available to anyone who wants to use it. There are two essential components: A […]