"There must be a better way to do this"

While working on a more elaborate animation with Manim, I met a familiar thought. It sounds something like this: Okay, I've been working on this for two and a half hours now and I don't feel anywhere near done. This is a lot of work. There&

Updating an old conda for Manim

I wanted to use Manim for something recently. The easiest way as far as I could tell was to use Conda, so I tried to do that. Unfortunately, I ran into an error, probably because my conda version is old. Naturally, I tried to update it. It turns out that

Writing "classic" scene types

Writing a "common" or "classic" scene can be tricky. This is the kind of scene you can expect your readers to have seen or read dozens of times before. But maybe more importantly, it's probably a type of scene that you have read dozens

The Great God Om

A fragment from Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: The Brutha boy was flat on his face in front of a statue of Om in His manifestation as a thunderbolt, shaking and gabbling fragments of a prayer. There was something creepy about that boy, Nhumrod thought. It was the way he

Language-space is big

I typed up a whole post about this today, but accidentally deleted it because it was all in one markdown box so I could have footnotes. My mistake. :( Instead I'm gonna present this more sloppily – just numbers and links with less context: 1. There are about 32000^512