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    On White Lies and Gas Lights

    14 February 2018

    When was the last time you told a “white lie”? You know the one I mean, that harmless little lie you told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Our world is rife with them, and they are slowly killing me.

    • interpreter
    • logic

    Building an Interpreter for Propositional Logic

    Part 2: Proper Propositional Logic

    03 January 2018

    The second in a series of posts laying out the process, step by step, of building an interpreter in Ruby for working with propositional logic. In this second post, we expand the interpreter to handle the full range of valid expressions in classical propositional logic.

    • interpreter
    • logic

    Building an Interpreter for Propositional Logic

    Part 1: Starting Simple

    29 December 2017

    The first in a series of posts laying out the process, step by step, of building an interpreter in Ruby for working with propositional logic. In this first post, we build an interpreter for working with simple logical expressions and dig into the specifics of the parts of an interpreter as well as the basics of propositional logic.

    • self

    Death of Self

    A Christmas Story

    19 December 2017

    A remembering of the time I experienced the death of my self.

    • faith

    The Word of God

    04 September 2017

    What does the phrase Word of God mean?

    • logic
    • faith

    On Antinomies and Paradoxes

    02 September 2017

    Should the central tenets of Christian theology be best understood as antinomies, or paradoxes, or both?

    • math
    • logic

    Degrees of Separation

    25 August 2017

    When talking about God, I’m not so certain that we have a great understanding of what we can and cannot say properly, or what we can and cannot understand properly.

    • poetry

    I am but a water glass

    24 August 2017

    I am but a water glass,
    a container for my life.
    Life osmoses through me
    forming droplets of moments
    that ruin rivulet-like to the tabletop.

    • ruby
    • rails

    Time in Ruby and ActiveRecord

    20 August 2017

    How does the Ruby Time class relate to the ActiveRecord time column type?

    • relationships
    • self
    • life

    Portrait of Pain II

    20 August 2017

    I had felt it for a while, though even then I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that I knew. It’s odd when truth gnaws at your gut, but you stubbornly ignore it. It is odd because, on the one hand, you know it, but on the other, you don’t. It’s odd and...

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