RT @ShriramKMurthi: One of the very best illustrations of the nature of social media is the number of accounts responding to disagree about…

There's a fantastic paper about this called The Discoveries of Continuations by John Reynolds. homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadle…

Cesar Geronimo

"a computer scientist who doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" RIP Tony Hoare. blog.computationalcomplexity…

Astronomical spring and meteorological spring are important, of course, but tomorrow is the most important day of March: sartorial spring, when Prof. Wallingford flips the bit and switches into shorts for the year.

i am pretty sure every song i have ever written was inspired by “boys of summer”. a total masterpiece.

Go Tristan and the Panthers! @UNImbb

This is the dream: train an LLM on the 20 year cache of the session notes, assignments, and readings I've created for my classes, then use it to generate lectures, talks, and presentations. I'll replace myself and get out my hammock. gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026…

I have a post-it note on my desktop on which I record 2FA codes that are palindromes, fun patterns, or cool numbers. It's an unusual affectation that gives me a little bit of pleasure.

Been there, done that. @orzelc is one of my people.

Sigh.

ICFP 2026 will be in Indianapolis!

Back in grad school, I spent more than a few hours discussing the Chinese room argument.

This could *be* my office.

Started a new blog - 'American Innocence' - about my new life in America, my observations about culture, politics, way of life here. In my first post I ask: if tragedies are so hard to watch because we feel a lot of it is avoidable why don't we have the same defenses in politics?

RIP to Bill Atkinson, one of the greatest programmers who ever lived. At Apple he created MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard and was a critical part of making the Macintosh magic. He co-founded General Magic - go watch that documentary.

I hadn't heard this song in a while. This lyric stood out today: Well I'm heavenly blessed And worldly wise I'm a peeping Tom techie With x-ray eyes Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcw…

I participated in an interesting exercise with the head of a university mathematics department once Grad students were brought in and asked what things they would like changed in the department. They made many thoughtful observations Afterward, the Head complained extensively that these problems were rather trivial. Indeed, they were - for him. But not for the students He then spent much of the next two days complaining about things that would have been easy for his Dean or other superiors to change, but which were difficult or impossible for him Related: I once talked to the leading Anglican Archbishop in Australian, who said that from the level of parish priest on up, he always thought the solution to his problems was a promotion. And so it was... except he'd eventually realized that his old problems were always replaced by something far more difficult