Yeah the process always struck me as just as much a barrier to exit as a barrier to entry (maybe even more so).

And the obligatory Alan Perlis epigrams (usually one makes it on a list like this!): http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html.

Awesome!

Mainly just improvise on the guitar (and primarily warm acoustic vibes during this pandemic):

* https://soundcloud.com/devin-riley-763462550/sunday-brunch

* https://soundcloud.com/devin-riley-763462550/frassled

Great thread, thanks for sharing all.

bute

Nice! Really like "When You\'re In Town".

If we are talking blitz though there is an argument to be made for the trickiness of the knight's geometry. Forks abound and no time to calculate.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray) is a great historical account and details many of his other contributions (e.g. game theory, automata, but especially meteorology).

+1 on Mathematics, Form and Function

Would recommend reading everything in Collected Fictions.