Today I finished reading “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Charles Seife
Archives for 2004
Listening – The Ugly Organ
This week I am listening to “The Ugly Organ” by Cursive
Read – Usagi Yojimbo #16: The Shrouded Moon
Today I finished reading “Usagi Yojimbo #16: The Shrouded Moon” by Stan Sakai
Read – The Art of Assembly Language
Today I finished reading “The Art of Assembly Language” by Randall Hyde
Listening – Think Tank
This week I am listening to “Think Tank” by Blur
Read – The Unnamable
Today I finished reading “The Unnamable” by Samuel Beckett
Read – The Tangle Box
Today I finished reading “The Tangle Box” by Terry Brooks
Read – Kenilworth
Today I finished reading “Kenilworth” by Walter Scott
Read – Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Today I finished reading “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow
Listening – Here Comes The Indian
This week I am listening to “Here Comes The Indian” by Animal Collective
Equal in all endeavours
Are we equal in all endeavours and adversities?
Or only equal so long as it isn’t inconvenient to be equal?
Read – Linux Kernel Development
Today I finished reading “Linux Kernel Development” by Robert Love
Paper – Reasoning About Common Knowledge with Infinitely Many Agents
Today I read a paper titled “Reasoning About Common Knowledge with Infinitely Many Agents”
The abstract is:
Complete axiomatizations and exponential-time decision procedures are provided for reasoning about knowledge and common knowledge when there are infinitely many agents.
The results show that reasoning about knowledge and common knowledge with infinitely many agents is no harder than when there are finitely many agents, provided that we can check the cardinality of certain set differences G – G’, where G and G’ are sets of agents.
Since our complexity results are independent of the cardinality of the sets G involved, they represent improvements over the previous results even with the sets of agents involved are finite.
Moreover, our results make clear the extent to which issues of complexity and completeness depend on how the sets of agents involved are represented.
Studying – Thumbnail sketching and line drawing
This month I am studying “Thumbnail sketching and line drawing”
Four day workshop spread over four weeks
After two back-to-back ancient languages I figured I should probably try something creative to detox.
Listening – American Life
This week I am listening to “American Life” by Madonna
Read – The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player
Today I finished reading “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants” by John Maxwell