I create materials used in poles wielded by folks who teach other people to fish, metaphorically speaking.

Joined December 2006
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17 Jul 2022
This schematisation by @dann is an interesting way to classify data structures — by analysing if they are abstract specifications/concrete implementations: youtu.be/2XH_q494U3U?t=94s
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9 Apr 2022
Thrilled that our paper on Ecological Memory Management won the coveted "Forgot to remove page numbers" award at SIGBOVIK! Read it here: orca.garden/pdf/Ecological_M…

28 Nov 2021
Exploring cellular automata with my kids, our five year old came up with an interesting set of rules that counts in binary. Anyone seen anything like this before? inatree.net/#Binary counti…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Computational Governance and Majoritarianism We're delighted to be working with @mansoor_a_r @Cambridge_CL @dann Hazem Danny Al-Nakib @uclcbt Workshop 28 Oct (deadline for papers 24 Sep), leading to a special collection in D&P. bit.ly/3k1oIze
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"You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated". RIP John Conway
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Want to help with #COVID19 while you're social distancing? @torontojs has partnered up with @DevEdmonton to help with @codevid19 Hackathon! Lets solve this together!! #CODEVID19 #COVID19 #TorontoJS
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While I was in grad school at CMU, I had the honor and privilege of learning from prof. John Reynolds. He was brilliant, but also incredibly humble. After knowing him, I stopped giving a pass to the "asshole genuis" types. Here are some stories. 1/
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4 Jan 2020
Write code. Mostly simple. Not too much.
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People tweet all sorts of things about real numbers, especially when it comes to computation. I've studied the topic for years, and I often disagree with such statements. Let me address just one such statement: "A computer cannot represent all reals, only the computable ones."
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7 Dec 2019
1) In 2008 a salmon (yes the fish) was put through an MRI scanner. The salmon was shown a series of photographs of humans in social situations, and asked to determine the emotion of the person in the photo (yes, really).
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5 Jul 2019
Anyone know of a Banach-Tarski-like construction that allows reassembly of a sphere from any sufficiently large subset of pieces (e.g., any three out of five)?
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2 Jul 2019
Deepfakes will save us all: like differential privacy for numerical data, deepfakes offer plausible deniability for the surveillance age. Corollary: unsigned data is inherently untrustworthy.
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We also have an industry panel! Panelists Jon Pither from @juxtpro, @morrifeldman from @AppsFlyerDev, and @sbelak from @metabase all gave their insights into how they manage data in their respective use cases. Moderated by @dann youtu.be/4XuwiJnMn0Q #clojure #clojurenorth
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25 May 2019
Beautiful conversation by @dann, @sbelak, @morrifeldman and @jonpither , discussing various aspects of their experiences working with data.
We also have an industry panel! Panelists Jon Pither from @juxtpro, @morrifeldman from @AppsFlyerDev, and @sbelak from @metabase all gave their insights into how they manage data in their respective use cases. Moderated by @dann youtu.be/4XuwiJnMn0Q #clojure #clojurenorth
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Dann Toliver asks questions about what is and isn't software. Let's think through them together in "Software, but not as we know it": youtu.be/iLeaXt9Bi58 #clojurenorth
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I once did a pair programming session with Joe. The lesson he gave me that day: Don't be afraid to look stupid. Many years after I still feel his influence in my professional life. What a humble and wise man he was!
In memory of @joeerl, you should share you special moments with him, funny, enlightening or plain silly. #rememberingjoe x.com/FrancescoC/status/1119…
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