wikipedia suggestion

Just a thought:
It’d be useful if Wikipedia could include in each of it’s articles the Library of Congress Classification (and/or other library classification systems) number of the topic in question.
For that matter, the classification tree of the topic in question would also be useful. Seems like this is done for some articles (or rather, some [...]

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to do

The bird has taken to the air!!!
So many things I wanna do! Better list them out (O.O Did i just say “list them out”?? Ah! I mean, “list them down”… better start revising my phrasal verbs):
Learn

C++
LaTex
Cryptography
Number Theory
Economics
Mathematics of Finance
Tai Chi

Program

Cryptogram solver
Sudoku solver, implementing my method
Sudoku solver, implementing Knuth’s Algorithm X
Generalised sudoku solver (any M x [...]

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cummings and goings

Death.  Something wrong, brother?
Santa Claus.  Yes.
Death. Sick?
Santa Claus. Sick at heart.
Death. What seems to be the trouble? Come – speak out.
Santa Claus. I have so much to give; and nobody will take.
Death. My problem is also one of distribution,
only it happens to be the other way round.
-from nonlecture six: i & am & santa claus, [...]

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what? you too?

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something [...]

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hit the road!

I’ve noticed that my blog contains more of other people’s words than my own. I quote too much. My excuse is that if other people have expressed it better than I ever will, then I might as well save myself the trouble.
But perhaps it’s also because I have read about life more than I’ve experienced [...]

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very bad poetry

Hilarious anthology! Read the introduction:

I seemed to feel as it were a strange kind of feeling stealing over me, and remained so for about five minutes. A flame, as Lord Byron has said, seemed to kindle up my entire frame, along with a strong desire to write poetry…
It was so strong I imagined that a [...]

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Little Gidding

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in [...]

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Orthodoxy

“I have often had a fancy for writing a romance about an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was a new island in the South Seas…
“What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined [...]

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Manalive!

“In [Orthodoxy], [Chesterton] starts off by describing a book he did not write, a romance about a man who sets off to discover a new land, but who unknowingly gets turned around and ends up re-discovering his own land, seeing it as if for the first time, where everything strikes him as being at once [...]

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{proof}

Delightful play by David Auburn, ranking 2nd to Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” among the mathematical plays I’ve read. *
A commentary, along with reviews, of the play can be found here.
One of the characters says:
If I wanted to work a problem all day long, I did it.
If I wanted to look for information – secrets, complex and [...]

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