independent software developer
This Sunday the 20th of Feb, 2010 I'm playing a little gig at The Moon cafe here in Perth. It's a pretty chilled out place where you can come and get some food and wine and listen to some beats etc.
If you are going to that thing at Kurb gallery it's just down the road, so drop by for a bit. :)
Hope to see you!
Also, my musical partner in crime, Fenris aka Maddest Kings Alive found this video of us playing as Chrism & Fenris some years ago. Enjoy!
Some people believe that a computational model of reality is the best model.
In this model, reality itself is assumed to be a mathematical process. It is a mathematical system sufficient to describe the set of natural numbers.
Therefore Gödel's incompleteness theorms apply to this model of reality.
Therefore in such a model of reality you can never prove the consistency of the model from within the model.
Additionally, there are true statements within this model which are not provable.
This means that such a model of reality cannot possibly contain a nested copy of itself, a perfect predictive model of reality/itself, since such a nested model would allow you to break both of the incompleteness theorems.
I think that this is proof that any computational or mathematical model of reality paradoxically excludes itself from ever being a perfect model of reality. This probably applies to all mathematical models of our reality, including any Grand Unified Theory.
We can never come up with a mathematical model of reality that is 100% predictive and accurate.
How Google could become a game console heavyweight to rival the likes of Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony:
Developers could then put joystick support in their games, and people could play said games on their TVs through their Android OS set-top boxes. USB Gamepads are a stable, cheap, and robust technology which everyone understands.
This may result in a new indie console gaming golden age, with all of the wonderful new indie games of recent years running in peoples' lounge rooms on their TVs just like in the 80s. Admit it, wouldn't you love to sit cross legged together under the TV and return to the days of Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Bros., Alex Kidd, Commander Keen, and friends? Only newer, and cheaper, and open, and network multiplayer. Oh boy, that is a vision I find irresistable!
A guy can dream, right?
In 2004 my friend Rob gave me a CD containing his latest work, a chiptune style album he had just written called Walk Like An Equation. I stuck it on my mp3 player and it stayed there all summer. It was the summer of quitting my dreary office job to go freelance, returning to computer studies, riding my BMX around the city in the sun, drinking beer, and listening to this album. It is still one of my favorite albums of all time, and he has now uploaded it for everyone to enjoy on Bandcamp. It's absolutely killer, so go download it now!
I have started a new blog here which is basically just images straight from my phone. I figured out the fastest way to get things from my eyeballs straight onto the internet. It goes like this:
What I love about this was I didn't have to write any code to make it happen, but it still uses open source components and my own server. It's also ridiculously convenient which is very important when you have a newborn. I don't have to rely on some horrible corporation (they are just some of the end-points where the stuff arrives). I am a pretty huge fan of things which involve writing less code.
If you like images, feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed. I promise it won't all be photos of my wonderful daughter. :)
Now I am going to post some drawings I scribbled.
PS Here is another cool internet thing someone did for selling stuff on the internet without writing any code. It came from Warren Ellis' blog.
PPS another thing is what I am reading and sharing on Google Reader, which is here.