At its core, computational engineering is engineering from first principles. Rather than the engineer's job being to develop geometry, in computational engineering the engineer's job is to determine the specifications and parameters which will drive geometry and provide them to the computer.
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The Gathering Storm Review
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, Brandon Sanderson was tapped to finish Wheel of Time after Jordan passed away before he could finish it. I can think of few tasks more difficult or daunting than stepping in to finish another author’s masterpiece.
Progress and Revisions
I am now being deliberate about developing and implementing the rhetoric I want to see - rather than treating it like an unchanging operating system I can only affect indirectly, I am treating it like an application I can custom-code to my specifications.
Intergalactic Update 2025
I am seeking and stumbling my way towards my own writing paradigm, with its own pace, its own conventions, and its own niche, a niche that includes you. Through more writing, more reading, and more thinking, I hope you'll continue to explore all regions of space and time with me in the year to come.
Deuteronomy Review
The style of its writing, the way its contents are presented, and the nature of those contents do not match the style of the preceding books, all ostensibly authored by Moses.
Funding for Fundamentals
If the conversation is not had, if there are only sides, statements, and declarations, more will be lost than a few years of erratic funding.
Uta-Matua and Other Tales of Kapingamarangi Review
Since, at least from this collection, we can gain only a sliver of insight into the associated culture, it is difficult to draw meaningful conclusions. Instead, I find myself asking more questions.
Novel-ty
Studying these matters causally might be impossible, but a recent paper, “Sameness Entices, but Novelty Enchants in Fanfiction Online,” explores a correlational relationship between the enjoyment of a work and the work’s originality through a data analysis of an online fanfiction archive.
The Polymath Review
Burke is supposedly something of a specialist in the study of the history of knowledge, but his writing does not reflect it – it is detailed, but not thoughtful. Despite the prolific endnotes with which the text is populated, The Polymath suffers from the fate of many nonfiction books written with appeal to a general audience in mind, being rather dilute and shallow in its treatment and approach.
Systems, Morals, Rulers, and Rebels
When I shared that notion – that evil is a matter of mismatched expectations – with some colleagues in a conversation, they thought I was making a joke. It’s not intended as one. Indeed, it is a somewhat frightening, and certainly disconcerting, idea to countenance
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