Lila Prime

The exam was printed in color. Partly this was to make the diagrams pretty, partly this was as a hint that students should be thinking about...

Some quotes from SIROCCO 2023 , a CS conference earlier this month. "Everything's computation. Any process evolving and solving pro...

New semester, new students. In response to the prompt "What is your quest?" they said to seek the Holy Grail (most popular respons...

 I forgot to write attributions so here are some more-scrambled-than-usual quotes: "Thank you! You've been sucked into the trap alo...

These have accumulated for awhile and I might've missed some as there is currently a "scratch notebook" infestation throughout...

Emily Willingham 's Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis is not what I expected. Based on the cover art and the subtitle, it se...

I jotted down many quotes in this time interval, because every. single. social. interaction. now feels deeply meaningful and like a carefull...

Many schools are now announcing that they will be 100% remote in August/September when they begin, replacing their previous hybrid/fancy rot...

There are giant, luxurious expanses of whiteboard in my office. They go almost floor-to-ceiling, which means that there is a considerable ma...

The most delicious, frolicksomely frustrating things to think about are the problems which reference themselves. Recursion is such  a twiste...

SCENE 1: to the victor the spoils, to the curious the puzzles Interior hallway, mid-day. LILA is walking purposefully to a meeting. ...

The season has rolled around again, just as you thought that maybe your soul had renewed slightly, your skills increased, your experienc...

This was a pretty ridiculous but lovely thing to see on my walk home across campus: students in giant inflatable bubbles running into each o...

We all know that I am magnificently interesting and lead a charmed and wonderful life. That's why we're here, reading this self-in...

It was always temporary, of course. For those keeping tabs, I am more bland at faculty meetings and less bland while teaching. Evidently I...

Unsure of myself with new colleagues and a new position, and wanting to maintain a certain dignity and thus obtain a level of respect (and r...

This post on sexual harrassment as a long con in academia is worth a signal boost. As such, defeating sexual harassment... will require a ...

Saarbrücken is a pretty city, a lovely place to seek cool refuge from the sweltering sun and treelessness of denser and more tropical citi...

Ack. Here's an article on manhood , with many not-what-I-expected statistics that women are out-earning men, adapting to new social and ...

This article in Nature offers a bleak outlook for science postdocs. The problem is the aggregation of individual human actions. If the sy...