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September 16, 2003

Read on

They say that travel broadens the mind. My childhood journeys provided ample contradictory evidence, though ("Ow! Stop it! Shut up! It wasn't me! He did it! Ow! Ow! If you don't behave I'll stop the car...").

Anyway. I think it's really a second-order effect: travellers read a lot, and reading broadens the mind. I don't get out so much, and my desktop is littered with PDFs which I shoulda coulda read; on a quiet morning I sometimes find time to scan through them.

Today's selection:


By the way, does anyone really believe that the Lambda calculus is indigenous? Sure it wasn't delivered in its entirety by visiting Grays? Or have I been reading too much Ken Macleod? (Great stuff, that. He has the physics of lightspeed travel approximately right, too).