In the spirit of Christmas, we're going to talk about gifts (Look at me, using "we" outside of a math paper, where it's the norm for whatever reason).

Running the following command in Haskell gives the natural log of the integers 1-1000. It runs in about a millisecond.

Recently, I was forced to go to the post office in person to pick up a package. Reading that last sentence out loud is a bit of a tongue twister. Anyway, the lady in front of me in the line needed to send out a package but had forgotten to tape it, so the post office employee asked her if she would like to buy some tape for 3 dollars.

It's funny how your perspective on Halloween changes as you age.

If you're writing online, for God's sake use a newline to break a paragraph rather than indent.

Learning Haskell made me a hell of a lot better at type checking, which also made me better at my math classes. Now I just wish Python's type annotations were more commonly used.

The best test of whether someone is fundamentally capable of changing is how they handle suggestions that they admit are good.

I've heard people object to Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency in general) on the grounds that is has no "intrinsic value".

Today on the train, I was listening to an old lady.

Writing complicated prose is overhyped. Far harder is taking your ideas and putting them into concise, simple, and short form takes real work.

There are way too many of them. My class is using 4 to teach the introduction to the subject.

Last December, I heard that shampoo makes your hair worse by stripping the oil that's normally produced in it. This causes a variety of hair related issues.

People often do not have their notes with them when they could most use them.

Every teacher has felt this before. You ask your listeners the dreaded question:

I read this a while ago on Neil Gaiman's blog:

I just realized that my mouse ran out of batteries this morning.  This, however, did not impede my computer work in the slightest and in fact, I got even more done today than usual.