Author: grant

What is the fundamental nature of our universe?

While working on the easy questions in life I put aside some time to work on defining the fundamental natures of our experience of this universe. The best that I could come up with is:
* Identity: We experience a sense of self that is separate from “others”.
* State: We experience things with a certain configuration.
* Time: We experience a past, present, and future.
* Quantity: We experience configurations in varying amounts. Nearly every idea may be expressed as a number.
* Causality: We experience or observe state changes due to interactions. A combination of identity and state result in things like the phenomenon of sequencing.
* Mortality: We are subject to death and decay.
Observations:
* Is it really this simple? What am I missing? What should be removed?
* Programmers may be intrigued to view their medium at a higher-level if they have not before done so. For functional programmers bewitched by “purity”, one might consider that there is a lot more to remove from a particular programming language to really make it “pure” as long as it remains befuddled by my long list. As I read the list, my romance with logic and its foundations in computer science is deeply reinvigorated.
* Would your life be the same if we didn’t have time? Or causality? What if we lived in only one dimension? What if past and present were intertwined?
* If we never died, how would we live differently or evolved differently?

The Role Of Compiler and Interpreter Writers

Compiler and interpreter writers fill a delightful yet barely occupied role of those who are tasked with bridging the literal gap between machine and implementation and philosophical gap between desire for feature and fulfillment.
My lack of experience in the topic and with such professionals leaves me surprised that not more roles and holders of the expertise exist compared to the more common areas of implementation.

Some Nice Books About Food

Haven’t cooked everything in them, but reading them sure made me hungry:
* ϰ Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker Robin Robertson
* ϰ Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats: Cut Out the Gluten and Enjoy an Even Healthier Vegan Diet with Recipes for Fabulous, Allergy-Free Fare Allyson Kramer
* ϰ The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free Laurie Sadowski
* ϰ The Soy-Free Vegan: Breakfast Recipes Joy Lynn Michaels
* ϰ Vegan Slow Cooking for Two or Just for You Kathy Hester