Oh gosh! My week notes are leaking again. Stuff is getting sent out much earlier than I expect. I should really put the current week note in draft mode until it is ready to send.
This week was a huge week for our family. Mira graduated from Senior Kindergarten. It is wild to think that she will be entering “The Grades” next year. I’m excited to see what comes next for her.
As we move towards summer, the kids are getting outside and playing more. They’re running up and down the block and teaching the neighbours to ride bikes. It feels like this is how parenting should go: the kids play with their friends while the parents make dinner. They have so much more fun with their peers than with us.
And there is an interesting inter-age dynamic because the current group of neighbourhood kids have ages 2, 5, 6, and 12. Obviously, the twelve year old is in a league of her own. But, she mostly minds the five and six year old and the little ones mind the youngest one.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Always Coming Home. Harper & Row, 1985.
Super-fascinating read. Speculative anthropology? It’s an imaginative exploration of post-Collapse society in the Napa Valley presented as anthropology. Seamlessly mixes poetry, literary fiction, and “non-fiction.” A very different experience than reading The Wizard of Earthsea.
This was a huge week for writing. I sent off three short pieces for publication. I’m glad to finally have these pieces off my plate. My writing queue is totally clear now. I’m thinking of re-working Hodkgin Preparation for Worship as a pamphlet.
I also went back and polished up a note about Student Websites. This led to the production of a minimal working example: https://pgadey.github.io/
I gave a Seminar talk about matroids and the greedy algorithm. Jeremy Kun has a nice write-up here: When Greedy Algorithms are Perfect: the Matroid. Briefly, “the greedy algorithm is optimal if and only if the optimization problem arises from a matroid.” It is a lovely result which partially explains the ubiquity of matroids.
Published: Jun 26, 2026 @ 19:00.
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