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Imitating Scalzi\u2019s inimitable style (at least when he\u2019s too busy to blog): \u201cHas the novel been sent back to the editor? NO.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 \u2026 if I could Just. Get. More. Time<\/i>. Friends from grade school<\/i> 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<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t get done and still get to my own work. So I tried imitating John Scalzi\u2019s quick posts when he\u2019s backed up. Normally a sentence, and a photo. That\u2019s it. But today, Google Photos and AT&T\u2019s 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?<\/i><\/p>\n
THIS is why Scalzi is paid the megabucks.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t not do the foundational work on a problem once I\u2019ve thought of it, or I\u2019ll never get back to it. This is important, it will mean something, I promise. But later.<\/p>\n
Back to the novel.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n
P.S. Yes I know my Mathematica could be simplified via NestList or something like that, don\u2019t bother me, don\u2019t bother me.
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