Thread:Comments:Wikinews mourns loss of volunteer John Shutt/To commemorate Pi zero, start a campaign to publish as a physical book the posts of his blog Structural insight...

Having dematerialized into the fringes for almost a dozen years, I find discovering a curious blog I had not come across so many years earlier one of my favorite ways to use the internet today.

To reset a long story shift, reviving the practice of programming eventually brought me to generators for the first time which in turn led to what they more generally represent, continuations; incidentally Mr Shutt had posted a comment related to this subject:

'I disagree with the common claim that ordinary continuations entail replacing the whole rest of computation. Rejecting this claim was key to the design of the control vau-calculus in my dissertation; in that calculus, a throw is a side-effect frame that propagates upward until it reaches its matching catch (at which point it can be canceled out). What makes the whole thing work is that the matching catch frame is also a side-effect frame, and when it propagates upward it causes changes to all its matching throws (by a non-lambda form of substitution).'

which really well captures an equivalence about verifiable causality at the core of the root of so many, many things. In turn I visited his blog and seeing the date of its posts, wanted to email the author and thank him for writing and sharing his writing--the accumulation of a lifetime reiterating what had been learned conceptually technical all the way up to the present envelope of today's reality--in case that might be the just enough motivation for them to resume posting. Sadly since that's not possible, consider that Structural Insight could be realized as a tangible collection of essays offering a refreshing synopsis contextualizing the story of science to the present day. I can quite literally picture it in a bookstore (the actual presence of a bookstore less so unfortunately), or even part of the syllabus for a course like "A History of Modern Science for the Rest of Us"...

Does anyone else share this opinion? As just a random internet user, this seems a great way that the life and brilliance of Pi zero could be commerated.

Maybe a crowd funded campaign or by grant...