Abstract Heresies

One of the core ideas in functional programming is to filter a set of items by some criterion. It may be somewhat suprising to learn th...

When you play with these AIs for a while you'll probably get into a conversation with one about consciousness and existence, and how i...

Here are some simple puzzles to exercise your brain. 1. Write partial-apply-left , a function that takes a binary function and the left...

The Advent of Code will begin in a couple of hours. I've prepared a Common Lisp project to hold the code. You can clone it from ht...

Anecdotes are not data. You cannot extrapolate trends from anecdotes. A sample size of one is rarely significant. You cannot derive ge...

I refactored my Gemini API to support multiple simultaneous personas. One of these personas is Urania, the muse of Science and Technology. ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I get a kick out of interacting with LLMs that appear to have quirky personalities. The mechanism by...