In 2010 I published a book titled Trials of the Moon: Reopening the Case for Traditional Witchcraft, which was a critique of Professor Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. I had found numerous errors in his work, and felt that he came down too heavily against (almost) any links …
This is a guide to becoming effective citizens, building the society we want to live in and saving the world. It is for everybody. It is a work in progress, and any help would be appreciated. But an imperfect plan is still a start, and if others improve on it or create their own, all …
For many years now, I’ve picked away at redesigning the Taroc, or Tarot, as it’s commonly known today. I’ve never found another deck that really works for me: most attribute wands to fire and swords to air, which has never suited me; and while I’d like the “minor” or pip cards to have pictures, I …
I’ve been interested in different ways of tiling the plane ever since I read a 1977 Scientific American article on different periodic tilings using convex pentagons and hexagons. There are nonperiodic tilings too, such as the famous Penrose tiles where two different shapes of tile create a mosaic that extends infinitely in all directions but …
Rachmaninoff wrote his “Fantaisie-tableaux” (Suite No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 5) in 1893 as a series of musical poems for two pianos. This, the third of the four, is probably the simplest to play, and is also one of Rachmaninoff’s most beautiful compositions. I got so obsessed with this piece that I ended up …
Rachmaninoff “Les Larmes” rearranged for two hands Read More »
Many ozone therapy proponents cite a “German study” into the safety of the treatment, which showed an extremely low risk of side effects based on over 5.5 million treatments. In fact, this appears to be misleading, and serious side effects including deaths have occurred over the years. Apparent causes of death have been gas embolism …
Ozone therapy: notes on the infamous German safety study Read More »
The SIOOT, the organisation claiming great success in treating COVID-19 with ozone therapy, says it received consent from the Italian ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Higher Institute of Health), and made the letter it received available on its website as a PDF. However, the ISS has since stated that it did not give “consent” for …
Italian ozone therapy treatments: the question of ISS consent Read More »
Many hospitals in Italy, Spain and China are now treating COVID-19 with reportedly “excellent”, “spectacular” results. Reports of these treatments appear in Italian and Spanish local news outlets but seem to be virtually unknown outside these regions. I’m trying to gather the information as it appears and collect it on this page, as well as …
Simhashes are a clever means of rapidly finding near-identical documents (or other items) within a large corpus, without having to individually compare every document to every other document. Using simhashes for any sizable corpus involves two parts: generating the simhash itself, and solving the Hamming distance problem. Neither is much use without the other. Unlike minhashes, …
Simhash and solving the hamming distance problem: explained Read More »
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