Imitating Scalzi’s inimitable style (at least when he’s too busy to blog): “Has the novel been sent back to the editor? NO.”
But Debra did like the new first couple of chapters for THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE, and her guidance gives me a clear path forward to cleaning them up, and the changes to the rest of the novel are minor … if I could Just. Get. More. Time. Friends from grade school are crossing the country to visit me, and friendly mathematicians are dropping by my coffeehouse table to school me on Clifford algebras and deep learning, to the point at which I finally had to turn down an impromptu lunch meeting today with someone who really wanted to know more about my team, just because I had no more time.
So, having no more time, just now I wanted to throw up a quick blogpost, other than the half dozen half-finished longer blogposts I can’t get done and still get to my own work. So I tried imitating John Scalzi’s quick posts when he’s backed up. Normally a sentence, and a photo. That’s it. But today, Google Photos and AT&T’s network and my phone and SPACE GREMLINS have conspired to make it impossible for me to upload photos in a timely fashion, I mean, dammit, how hard is it to write a sentence and post a photo?
THIS is why Scalzi is paid the megabucks.
I am no John Scalzi, so, here, you get a picture of the structure of the first 72 positions in tic-tac-toe, because I can’t not do the foundational work on a problem once I’ve thought of it, or I’ll never get back to it. This is important, it will mean something, I promise. But later.
Back to the novel.
-the Centaur
P.S. Yes I know my Mathematica could be simplified via NestList or something like that, don’t bother me, don’t bother me.
