Computation

Numerical Linear Algebra

Notes

Practical matrix computations and numerical realities.

Gödel, Turing, and the Mathematics of Horror

The formal foundations of cosmic dread. Lovecraft's horror resonates because it taps into something mathematically demonstrable: complete knowledge is impossible, not as humility, but as theorem.

The Mocking Void: On the Computational Incompleteness of Meaning

Lovecraft understood that complete knowledge is madness. Gödel proved why. If the universe is computational, meaning is formally incomplete.

Computational Statistics - SIUe - STAT 575 - Problem Set 2

This problem set covers the E-M algorithm for right-censored normal data with known variance.

Review: A Symbolic Representation of Time Series, with Implications for Streaming Algorithms

A review of SAX (Symbolic Aggregate approXimation), a method for converting real-valued time series into symbolic representations with guaranteed distance lower bounds.

SIUe - Computational Statistics (STAT 575) - Problem Set 4

This problem set covers sampling from a Gamma distribution using Metropolis-Hastings and acceptance-rejection methods.

Suffering, Computation, and the Enigma of Reality

If consciousness is substrate-independent, suffering might be a computational property. That possibility is both comforting and horrifying.

The Call of Asheron: Magic as Computational Discovery

A fantasy novel where magic follows computational rules. Natural philosophy applied to reality's underlying substrate.