Ray Nowell

@genus2.bsky.social

Computer security, math, history, and rocks.

VIN SCULLY: So, here's Paul Atreides from Caladan. On Arrakis, he's called Lisan al Gaib, the Fremen name for The Voice from the Outer World. As a boy, he studied the blade under Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho. As a man, he steps in to face Feyd-Rautha, na-Baron of Geidi Prime.

Way back in graduate school (late ‘80s) I came across another Mir published book. It worked out the detailed computation of Kovalevskaya tops and called the genus two hyperelliptic functions “ultraelliptic.” Unfortunately I have not been able to find that book since…

Experimenting with the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw me a picture of what you think my current life looks like.” As a variation of the old-time collage, “you are what you read.”