A comprehensive colormap style guide

Say you’re writing a scientific paper, and you need to plot the geographical prevalence of a gene. Or a snapshot of the phase-space particle density in a PIC simulation. Or the measured temperature along an array of thermocouples as a function of time. In such contexts, our ancestors have long turned to the humble pseudocolor … Continue reading A comprehensive colormap style guide →

On the propedeutic value of Esperanto

It is often repeated on the internet that studying one year of Esperanto followed by three years of German will get you more proficient in German than if you had studied it all four years. The sources to support this claim are sparse, though, and many of the studies that have been done had small … Continue reading On the propedeutic value of Esperanto →

sabu ki Luna su saya mas lili ka Luna

sol oskur si kas na jo Luna be move do medi da Geo e Sol, jo asar la Sol be oskur ze Geo. ni kas ya vide di ajibu, a mon bil vide yemon ze un di lili area da Geo su fas.

How to make a TypeScript webapp in IntelliJ without frameworks

This post outlines how to create a webapp with multiple files and third-party dependencies in TypeScript without relying on Node or Require, using the IntelliJ IDE. For such a seemingly simple task, there is a dearth of useful tutorial material online; most TypeScript guides assume a level of familiarity with JavaScript that I don't think … Continue reading How to make a TypeScript webapp in IntelliJ without frameworks →

Rescriptivism: the new school of linguistic thought

If you've ever heard (or been a part of) an argument on the finer points of english grammar that's stretched on long enough, you've likely heard the words "prescriptivism" and "descriptivism". For those who haven't had the pleasure, these are the two main schools of linguistic thought, which often butt heads when the unsuspecting pedant … Continue reading Rescriptivism: the new school of linguistic thought →

Introducing the Danseiji Projections

This post outlines work that is described more thoroughly in the article "Minimum-error world map projections defined by polydimensional meshes", which has been published in the International Journal of Cartography. If you want the full technical details and can't afford to get around the paywall, you can read the preprint here: Minimum-error world map projections … Continue reading Introducing the Danseiji Projections →

Oltilip: an international auxiliary language

Disclaimer: Please do not actually learn this language. I created Oltilip to satisfy my personal desire for a language that I thought was optimal. I publish it such that those who are interested can see my ideas and potentially gain something from them. However, were I to actually push it as a contender for the second language … Continue reading Oltilip: an international auxiliary language →

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics

If you don't know what magnetohydrodynamics (henceforce "MHD", because I'm boring) is, this is basically all you need to know. If you don't know what COMSOL is… this. In all seriousness, though, MHD is basically just Euler's equations for fluid flow generalised to a highly conductive fluid where Maxwell's equations also apply. It has a … Continue reading Magnetohydrodynamic simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics →

The Sudofannettick Inglish Reform

So, a lot of people know that I'm into orthographies, and conlangs in general. And that I have a lot of ideas for how English could be spelled more phonetically. I've already proposed here several possible ways this could be done. All of those were systems that I came up with from scratch given what … Continue reading The Sudofannettick Inglish Reform →