Joe Cecil

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark has some strange lyrics, and I wonder what they could mean. The song is about the narrator and and a strange woman who says, "I'd like to poison your mind with wrong ideas that appeal to you, though I am not unkind."

How are binaries painful? 1/n

I don't use a compiled language professionally. I have looked at raw lists of Python packages sometimes and am vaguely familiar with manylinux, cffi, and cmake. That said, it sounds like there are a few ways it's painful to have to build binaries: 1. They'

Mathematics as combination charnel ground and pure land

Something I've been thinking off and on about is: How can we view mathematics as yet another combination charnel ground and pure land? In theory, mathematics is supposed to be "pure," "rational," unsullied by the fact that it is human minds that invent it,

Shiny fish

Newport Aquarium has shiny fish. They're tiny. Their schools flash. It's wild to see.

A structure I'm experimenting with for spreadsheet-generating Python code

Whenever I write an experiment at work, I need to arrange the resulting data in some readable, manipulable form, and usually that's a table. Doing it manually is a pain and redundant anyway. That means generating tables programmatically in Python. It's important for the results to

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