From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:29:29 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update about and 40x pages X-Git-Tag: v0.9^2~11 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce3a50c804ab315819542931680c10319b623986;p=thetarpit.git Update about and 40x pages --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 69a3488..50d49e8 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ *.hi _cache _site +_sitebeta site dist/ .cabal-sandbox/ cabal.sandbox.config +/config.lisp \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/403.markdown b/403.markdown index c66235c..4eebe51 100644 --- a/403.markdown +++ b/403.markdown @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ --- title: Four, oh, three, forbidden author: Lucian Mogoșanu -date: July 20, 2013 +date: October 29, 2016 --- -~~~~ {.haskell} -putStrLn "Thou shall not pass!" +~~~~ {.commonlisp} +`(You shouldn :t be ,here) ~~~~ diff --git a/404.markdown b/404.markdown index 14613dd..3e173b2 100644 --- a/404.markdown +++ b/404.markdown @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ --- title: Four, oh, four, page not found author: Lucian Mogoșanu -date: July 20, 2013 +date: October 29, 2016 --- -~~~~ {.haskell} -*** Exception: TarPit.undefined -~~~~ +The page you're looking for does not exist. +`[Condition of type NONEXISTING-PAGE]` diff --git a/about.markdown b/about.markdown index 86e0f18..d81e04a 100644 --- a/about.markdown +++ b/about.markdown @@ -1,43 +1,32 @@ --- -title: About +title: On tar pits (or, the second about) author: Lucian Mogoșanu -date: August 11, 2013 +date: October 29, 2016 --- -[Definition][1]: **tar pit** - -1. A hollow in which natural tar accumulates by seepage -2. A complicated or difficult situation or problem (e.g. "the tar pit of -municipal poverty") - -So, why The Tar Pit? Let's explain this in a quasi-formal language. - -Let $P$ be a set, representing all the problems in our universe. Let $K$, a -subset of $P$, be the set of all known problems. Of the problems $p \in K$, a -small part are currently subject to research and of those some will be solved -sooner or later. - -However, this is only one of the steps involved in the scientific approach. The -Tar Pit aims in a different, sometimes opposite, direction: creating and -exposing problems, that is, finding problems in $P$ that aren't (yet) in $K$ -and discussing problems in $K$ that are worth solving but are grossly -neglected. As [Jacob Bronowski][2] would put it, "That is the essence of -science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent -answer". As [Alan Perlis][3] would put it, albeit in a slightly different -context, "Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but -nothing of interest is easy". A word of warning, though: a significant part of -the ideas exposed here are half-baked. - -Additionally, this is Lucian Mogoșanu's personal blog and thus will contain -all sorts of other things that I find interesting. You can find more about me -on my [about page][4]. To find ways to get in touch with me, see the -[contact][5] page. - -The Tar Pit is Free and Open Source, and thus can be forked [on Github][6]. - -[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=define:%20tar%20pit -[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man -[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit -[4]: http://lucian.mogosanu.ro/about -[5]: /contact.html -[6]: /posts/y00/006-the-tar-pit-on-github.html +Humans' understanding of the universe is terrifyingly limited. Yet from +thermodynamics we know (or we think we know) that by the arrow of +entropy nature tends to fall into a general state of disorder. This is +the zeroth tar pit. + +The first, second, third and so on up to the nth are most of the things, +beasts, people and phenomena surrounding us, from the actual sticky +thing to more metaphorical notions such as Kafka's perfect bureaucracy, +or just the fat lady standing in front of you at the queue in the post +office. + +In the same category lies a tar pit uniquely attributable to man, that +creature more widely (although more and more narrowly) known as Zōon +Politikon. It, like the Boltzmann constant itself, is also difficult to +grasp, but you might know it as that feeling which (naturally!) keeps +you from aspiring to become *more* human. It is laziness; it is +stagnation; it is tiredness, and it is ultimately death. + +This blog, my, Lucian Mogoșanu's blog, describes its author's struggle +through his own personal tar pit, as well as accounts and critiques of +some of his times'. I hope I will have at least captured some of the +more interesting ones, much to the amusement of future alien +anthropologists. + +The Tar Pit is an ever incomplete and thus necessarily flawed +publication. After all, tar pits might not even be enumerable.