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Did Ahmes find the best expansions for 2/n?

about 2 months ago

A couple of years back I was discussing the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus...

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

2 months ago

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint I keep...

How are John Waters movies like James Bond movies?

2 months ago

A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had...

Documentation is a message in a bottle

2 months ago

Something interesting happened at work this week. Our company is going to...

Bo Diddley

2 months ago

Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of...

Language models imply world models

3 months ago

In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed...

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

3 months ago

BuyArtificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback) One of the better books I...

Crooked politicians love crab cakes!

3 months ago

I recently posted an article about the 2013 Philadelphia Traffic Court fiasco...

Almost-trivial theorems

3 months ago

A couple of years back I wrote an article about this bit...

An anecdote about backward compatibility

3 months ago

A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our...

My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

8 months ago

As I have explained in the past, my typical workflow is to...

Mystery of the quincunx's missing quincunx

12 months ago

A quincunx is the X-shaped pattern of pips on the #5 face...