http://vaguery.com Recent additions to Vaguery.com http://vaguery.com/words/two-simple-GP-benchmarks Using the Pell Equation and a handful of weird functions involving digit-fiddling as benchmarks for automated algorithm discovery 2019-02-03 http://vaguery.com/words/what-does-a-program-do It's easy to imagine the programs (and functions) we write can be reduced to the values they return as their "result". Sometimes we allow that there may be "side effects" of an algorithm, but for human-written code we let it disappear. But that hidden work may be crucial to success in GP and software synthesis projects. I look at arithmetic, plus a little something extra, to try to tease apart what I want a "program" to do.... 2019-02-09 http://vaguery.com/words/higher-order-functions-in-ReQ In which I try to work through some simple abstract rules for functions that apply other functions to things in the new `ReQ` language for GP 2019-02-11 http://vaguery.com/words/more-GP-benchmarks Another open-ended (no answers here!) puzzle-pile for Number Theory exploration, which I'll be throwing GP at shortly: Given a set of integers, what can we say about the proportion of the numbers, and their pairwise sums, _and their pairwise products_ which do not contain a forbidden digit pattern? 2019-04-07 http://vaguery.com/words/exporting-a-quil-sketch I'd like to make it easier for me to make a self-contained `quil` sketch for use in a webpage (and with interactive elements and/or controls) next time 2019-04-18 http://vaguery.com/words/rewriting-real-numbers In which we fuck around with irrational numbers in an immoderate way, just to see what happens. 2019-04-27 http://vaguery.com/words/quil-for-20200206 Life events have kept me away from the keyboard for too long. I am starting small, with a relatively simple `quil` sketch. 2020-02-06 http://vaguery.com/words/quil-for-20200207 A `quil` sketch that looks more like CMY halftone patterns 2020-02-07 http://vaguery.com/words/quil-for-20200208 Trying to improve rendering speed and randomness. 2020-02-08 http://vaguery.com/words/quil-for-20200209 Finding a problem with quil's event-handing. 2020-02-09 http://vaguery.com/words/quil-for-20200210 A small start to an agent-based layout algorithm. 2020-02-10 http://vaguery.com/words/dissectable-numbers "On dissectable prime numbers" is hard to describe... 2021-02-17 http://vaguery.com/words/improved-review "An improved review of <em>Physiologie Vegetale</em> (1834)" is hard to describe... 2021-02-22 http://vaguery.com/words/adjusted-review-sleep-and-death "Observations and adjustments on a very negative review (1834)" is hard to describe... 2021-02-23 http://vaguery.com/words/adjusted-organic-chemistry "Organic chemistry (1834)" is hard to describe... 2021-02-26 http://vaguery.com/words/taps-mike "Taps Mike" is hard to describe... 2023-01-09 http://vaguery.com/words/continued-fractions-as-quines I wonder about whether a continued fraction can have the same decimal digits when expanded as the concatenation of its terms; apparently, yes? 2024-08-02 http://vaguery.com/words/push-instructions-done-lazily Prepping for an expansion of the Push language for abstract processes 2024-08-08 http://vaguery.com/words/type-personality-of-an-advertisement Transcript of an article from _Impressions: A Journal of Business Making Ideas_ 2024-08-14 http://vaguery.com/words/mathematical-programming-challenges A collection of some miscellaneous genetic programming benchmarks I've jotted recently, which humans can try, too 2024-10-08