Abstract Heresies
Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Advent of Code 2025, brief recap
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I did the Advent of Code this year using Common Lisp. Last year I attempted to use the series library as the primary iteration mec...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Filter
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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...
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Friday, January 9, 2026
The AI Gazes at its Navel
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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...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Code mini-golf
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Here are some simple puzzles to exercise your brain. 1. Write partial-apply-left , a function that takes a binary function and the left...
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Advent of Code 2025
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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...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
AI success anecdotes
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Anecdotes are not data. You cannot extrapolate trends from anecdotes. A sample size of one is rarely significant. You cannot derive ge...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Rewrite of Gemini API (AI content)
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I refactored my Gemini API to support multiple simultaneous personas. One of these personas is Urania, the muse of Science and Technology. ...
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