Chris McCormick

Cool, I just broke my previous record for number of commits to the Infinite 8-bit Platformer codebase in one month! 40 commits and there are still 5 days left in February.

The good news is that I think this baby is almost ready for beta-release candidate one. With just 6 items left in the TODO list, I'm getting very excited!

(Perhaps the kind reader and Infinite 8-bit Platformer fan will overlook the previous three months of childbirth related decompression in which not a single commit was made. :] )

"It's done, when it's done." -- John Carmack

• 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:

• Supply USB gamepad drivers for Android OS (this code is actually already in the GNU/Linux kernel underneath Android OS).
• Put joystick hooks into the Android Java API and market this fact to developers.
• Encourage TV retailers to sell branded USB gamepads as add-ons with their Android based set-top boxes and TVs.

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?

Hello! I've uploaded two new tunes to the squeakyshoecore album of algorithmic acid. They are called ring singularity and prolate spheroid. Get yr rave on here. Incidentally, you might like to type the names of the squeakyshoecore songs into the search bar of Wikipedia. They are all named after fascinating science and mathematics topics.

On the 18th of December, I will also be playing a live gig in Hyde Park, Perth. I will be using the GarageAcidLab algorithms that I use to make squeakyshoecore here in Perth, Western Australia as part of the Seriously Sound System music festival organised by the local radio station, RTRFM. I am on just after midday at 12.40 in the afternoon. It should be a lot of fun!

Leading up to that I will be interviewed on that radio station at 8am local time this Friday the 10th of December. If you are not awake for it (like me), or you don't live in Western Australia, you can listen to the podcast, which I'll post here afterwards if I can figure out where it is.

Kampai!