[hakmem]

Guessed it but you wrote "continuous" instead of "continued" :) I was excited about something new ;)

And yes, this text is gold. Bill Gosper is the Hunter S. Thompson of science.

[enriquto]

yes, of course I meant "continued" (this is a common error by speakers of latin languages since we use the same word for both things)

[hakmem]

Yeah, this is Hacker News.