Lila Prime

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

I like to give students the opportunity to be creative. Partially this is because I am noble and committed to good pedagogy practices and al...

As part of my lecture, I ask interactive live-polling multiple choice questions. Today, one of those questions was: Let S be the set of S...

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

I take attendance by having the students answer a question, although that policy has come under [my] scrutiny and it will change a bit this ...

There is a homework due this morning. The single most popular post on the course message board occurred last night. 1:10am: "do we h...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...

Certain calendrical conventions mean that today is not any particular day. But on the other side of a large body of water, there's a co...

A nice, depressing, abstracted rumination for Valentine's Day: "lovers cradling one another on the beach, murmuring the three words...

Not really on-schedule for π day (and in any case, the food/mathematical constant homonym doesn't work in French), but every  day is a g...

Happy π day!* Adapting to my locale, I used mirabelles (illegal to import to the US!) and a toaster oven to celebrate. The severe limitat...

Scott Alexander is resplendent in this blog post about science, statistics, confirmation bias, control groups, and the study of whether psy...

Every so often, I am struck with the realization that other people do not think the way I think. (This recurs, so perhaps it is a re realiza...

No, not framing it for a crime. I just read the article A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters ...

I dreamed last night about different approaches to try to compute this calculation I am working on. It's a real calculation, that I am ...

So do I. Perhaps I'll try to make them tactful as well. This post's theme word is asperity, "harshness or roughness."

Do you know anything about computing VC-dimension? Or about the Sauer-Shelah lemma? Both Wikipedia and the CC blog state the lemma in a w...

Two recent items of internews (internet+news = stories that are popular for a few hours) regarding Turing machines, my second-favorite type ...

Happy e day! Remember pi day, back on March 14 (3.14)? Well, allowing for some creative calendrical interpretation, today is e day, the 71...

Tor.com has a fantastic animation up for Ada Lovelace Day: I don't have anything to add; honestly, my role models have been male. Ther...