Patty’s Promo has links to a number of books that are free this weekend. Including one by my coauthor, Amelia. ‘The Girl in the Machine’ is actually number 26 in technothrillers. So technically it’s a best-seller.
Month: August 2016
Another Installment.
My coauthor’s put out another installment of our latest. Still looking for a title.
Cats are, sort of, important in the story.
There may be chaos still around the world
George Santayana
There may be chaos still around the world,
This little world that in my thinking lies;
For mine own bosom is the paradise
Where all my life’s fair visions are unfurled.
Within my nature’s shell I slumber curled,
Unmindful of the changing outer skies,
Where now, perchance, some new-born Eros flies,
Or some old Cronos from his throne is hurled.
I heed them not; or if the subtle night
Haunt me with deities I never saw,
I soon mine eyelid’s drowsy curtain draw
To hide their myriad faces from my sight.
They threat in vain; the whirlwind cannot awe
A happy snow-flake dancing in the flaw.
Chaos means something more specific to the mathematically inclined. This little picture shows the pattern of convergence for the complex roots of (X^3-1) with Newton’s method. The colour shows which root was found for each starting point. There’s nothing that vaguely resembles a continuous boundary between regions. (The picture’s left-handed – the Red is X = 1.)
R. Harrison, Creative Enterprises 