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by pcfwik 7d ago
If this suggestion were to come to pass, I wonder how new math PhDs would think about choosing between a 'normal' R1 faculty job vs. the "teaching route" (teaching professorships, lectureships, community college professo
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by pcfwik 8d ago
Agreed that logic isn't a branch of mathematics (even today, my experience has been that logic classes tend to be offered by philosophy departments, not math). My only quibble was the implication that logic is somehow much newer than m
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by pcfwik 13d ago
I broadly agree with your sentiment and am saddened (outraged?) to see the financially motivated cheapening of (destruction of?) what mathematics truly is. I agree that formal logic is merely a model of one aspect of what mathematicians do,
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Proof And Progress In Mathematics (1994) [pdf](math.toronto.edu)
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by pcfwik 19d ago
It's never clear what's "real" vs. marketing for the LLM companies, but Mozilla at least has made a big deal publicly about the "unprecedented" number of "latent security bugs" they've found usin
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Separating Parsing Expression Grammars Using Cell-Probe Lower Bounds(arxiv.org)
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by pcfwik 23d ago
Knowing some folks that work on "major-browser-vendor" security in the era of Mythos-found-and-exploited vulnerabilities everywhere, the thought of running completely random untrusted Javascript on my machine has freaked me out to
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by pcfwik 24d ago
Also very out-of-date, but https://wiki.haskell.org/Regex_Posix#Results_and_Bugs "names and shames."
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An Interpretation of the POSIX regex Standard [pdf](dn790006.ca.archive.org)
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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast(swtch.com)
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Censured Administrations – AAUP(aaup.org)
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Tom Robbins' Remington SL3 Typewriter from "Still Life with Woodpecker"(typecast.munk.org)
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Against Curry-Howard Mysticism(liamoc.net)
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by pcfwik 2mo ago
I think this is a valid point. I would much prefer if the spiral rule were presented as a helpful mnemonic for remembering C operator precedence rather than something uniquely connected to declarations!
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by pcfwik 2mo ago
Being taught this rule in undergrad really hampered my appreciation of C. As I've said in a previous comment, the real key that unlocked understanding C declarations for me is the mantra "declaration follows use." You declare
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by pcfwik 2mo ago
> When I was in mathematics, reading other people's work was always more rewarding to me than doing my own. [...] I really welcome the omniscient mathematician machine people are predicting. Curious, as someone who relates strongly
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Industrial Society and Its Future (Text of Unabomber Manifesto)(archive.nytimes.com)
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Why do we do astrophysics?(arxiv.org)
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Stand and Deliver Revisited(reason.com)
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An Introduction to Objectivist-C(fdiv.net)
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Rewrite System Showdown: Stochastic Search vs. EqSat(arxiv.org)
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Left-Leaning Red-Black Trees Considered Harmful(read.seas.harvard.edu)
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Report from Vietnam (1968) Walter Cronkite [video](youtube.com)
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Logarithmic Mean(en.wikipedia.org)
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Jim Roskind on C Ambiguity(pdos.csail.mit.edu)
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Stephenson Impersonator; Minor Update(nealstephenson.substack.com)
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Designing a Programming Language for the Desert(futhark-lang.org)
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250 Years Ago: Thomas Paine's Common Sense(blogs.loc.gov)
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Identity Theft in AI Conference Peer Review(cacm.acm.org)
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by pcfwik 10mo ago
Since this is about C declarations: for anyone who (like me) had the misfortune of learning the so-called "spiral rule" in college rather than being taught how declarations in C work, below are some links that explain the "de

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