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Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem | Miskatonic University Press

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Last modified: 14 January 2014. This theorem is one of the most important proven in the twentieth century. Here are a few brief selections that will help you start to understand it. Gödel’s original paper On Formally Undecidable Propositions is available in a modernized translation. It’s also in print from Dover in a nice, inexpensive edition. See Wikipedia’s Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Judy Jones and William Wilson,. Carl B. Boyer. And James R. Newman. He proved it impossible to establish the inter...

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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang | Miskatonic University Press

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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang. Last modified: 25 May 2016. Compiled by William Denton wtd@pobox.com. Edition 3.9.4. Version 4.0 is planned. Originally published as a pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press, 1993. If you’ve ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like,. I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, ‘Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.’. Something like this isn’t too hard to decipher. But what if you encounter,. Senator Caleb...

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How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web | Miskatonic University Press

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How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web. Last modified: 28 March 2009. Update February 2011: This has been translated into Dutch: Hoe maak je een facetclassificatie en hoe plaats je haar op het web? Many thanks to Janette Shew and the Information Architecture Institute’s Translations Initiative for doing this. Also, How to. A Faceted Classification and Put It On the. Update February 2007: IA Voice. Has used this paper as the basis for a series of four podcast episodes! A survey of the ...

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Giraffes on Horseback Salads | Miskatonic University Press

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Giraffes on Horseback Salads. Last modified: 12 January 2014. This is from the May 1996 issue of. From a previously unpublished film script by Salvador Dali, written in 1937 for the Marx Brothers. Dali, who was a fan of the comedians, had befriended Harpo Marx the year before. The film, entitled Giraffes on Horseback Salads. Here is the script:. There is a competition for the person who can ride a bicycle the slowest with a stone balanced on his head. All the participants have to grow beards. In ...Befor...

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Jesus, to his credit | Miskatonic University Press

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Jesus, to his credit. A quote from a sermon given by an Anglican minister a couple of weeks ago: Jesus, to his credit, was a lot more honourable than some of us would have been. Legendo autem et scribendo vitam procudito.". Mdash; Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BCE). List of all blog posts. Blog posts grouped by tags. Configure things (servers and dotfiles) in Org. A sonification of climate change. Sounds in Time Actively Performing Library Reference. Children's book author and illustrator.

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Updated Westlake footnote | Miskatonic University Press

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Jesus, to his credit. I updated the list of fictional footnotes. With more information on. 1993) by Donald E. Westlake, which I just read (it’s a Dortmunder. And a real informative one, too. Pays to keep on your toes. The tp. verso of my 1994 Mysterious Press paperback edition has this:. Enjoy lively book discussion online with CompuServe. To become a member of CompuServe call 1-800-848-8199 and ask for the Time Warner Trade Publishing forum. (Current members: GO:TWEP.). Jesus, to his credit.

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Hardboiled and Noir | Miskatonic University Press

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Last modified: 22 March 2009. A listing of all of the hardboiled and noir stuff on the site. The mailing list for hardboiled and noir writing. It was created in 1997, and all of the archives are online and searchable. Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang. ISBN 1-55806-311-0), a role-playing game guide from Iron Crown Enterprises. Soon I’ll give it another update and polish it up. (Special pages for butter and egg man. The Lazy Gink’s Guide to a Complete Hammett Collection.

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Barsetshite | Miskatonic University Press

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Installing R from source. Isn’t well known now. She’s one of a number of mostly forgotten female British writers of the middle of the last century, like Elizabeth Goudge. For more about women like this check Persephone Books. Which is doing a wonderful job of bringing these generations of books back into print.). Hoping for something like this, I just read. Published in 1944. I disliked it so much I decided I will never read Thirkell again. Thirkell sets her novels in Barsetshire. There’s a female doctor...

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Mathematics and sculpture | Miskatonic University Press

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I’m reading The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011. Edited by Mircea Pitici, catching up on an older instalment of an excellent series. Once I discovered it I made it an annual purchase. Every year there’s a wonderful range of excellent writing about many different aspects of mathematics. The 2011 book has a chapter by Helaman Ferguson. Shows his sculptures, including Umbilic Torus NC. 1987), which he talks about in the chapter, and related pieces. Mathematicians are notorious for wanting to do things them...