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10.9.25

Haskell equations, thirty-eight years later

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One night, while drifting off to sleep (or failing to), I solved a conundrum that has puzzled me since 1987. Before Haskell there was Orwell...
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9.9.25

Translation Table

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I remember seeing a version of the above in High School. My favourite entries, which I quote to this day, are "... accidentally straine...
21.8.25

Why are we funding this?

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  In the face of swinging funding cuts in the US, David Samuel Shiffman defends the value of scientific curiosity in American Scientist . Sp...
11.8.25

The Provocateurs: Brave New Bullshit

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  Update : My colleague Elizabeth Polgreen has kindly written a post for the ETAPS Blog describing my show. Philip Wadler is a man who wea...
22.6.25

The Provocateurs: Brave New Bullshit

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[Reposting with update.] Following two sell-out shows at the Fringe last year, I'm on at the Fringe again: 11.25 Monday 4 August, Stand ...

What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out

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  A powerful op-ed by Gabor  Maté  in the Toronto Star. Just as nothing justifies the atrocities of October 7, nothing about October 7 just...
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21.6.25

How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

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An intriguing talk by Gabriella Gonzalez, delivered at Haskell Love 2020. Based largely on the famous marketing book, Crossing the Chasm. G...
6.5.25

The Provocateurs: Brave New Bullshit

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Following two sell-out shows at the Fringe last year, I'm on at the Fringe again: 11.25 Monday 4 August, Stand 2  w/Lucy Remnant and S...
6.2.25

I've been nominated for a teaching award

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I've been fortunate to be nominated for a few teaching awards over my career, and even to win a couple. The nomination I just received m...
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4.1.25

Telnaes quits The Washington Post

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Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has quit the Washington Post, after they refused to publish one of her cartoons, depicting Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), S...