When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive – don’t mourn them uselessly.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
say goodbye to her, the …
The main concept discussed in A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram is the complexity that results from very simple Cellular Automata. I looked at that in an earlier post Cellular Automata with F#. Chapter four of A New Kind of Science looks at systems based on numbers:
The underlying rules for …
Accelerate: The Science of DevOps - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (2018) had a huge impact in the technology industry. The book describes models of DevOps capabilities and culture, and how organisations can drive improvement in software delivery and reliability. What …
Buried Alive, from the book Livia (1978) in The Avignon Quintet.
A poem filling with water,
A woman swimming across it
Believing it a lake,
The words avail so little,
The water has carried them away
Frail as a drypoint the one kiss,
Renovation of a swimmer’s loving.
Attach a penny calendar to …
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