Philosophical Geek

This kind of thing has happened to be a few times now, so I thought I’d share the fun.
In one of our pieces of software we have a process that looks like this:

void MyThread()
{
while (true)
{
DoFunctionA();
[...]

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Alex Shalman has a great post at zenhabits about how to avoid letting your brain decay into apathy and atrophy. It’s a great call to action, to find ways of self-improvement. I think the behaviors listed here dovetail very nicely with the attributes of highly effective programmers.
By continuing to do as we always have, the [...]

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For all of you who learned boolean algebra in your CS courses in college, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news: your education was incomplete. The list of boolean tautologies and truth tables that you may have memorized or learned over time was wrong, with some startling and glaring errors.
To rectify this, [...]

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There is a really interesting post by Hugo Kornelis on what happens when you have to introduce the value Unknown to boolean algebra. Unfortunately, it also reminds me of What Is Truth? on WorseThanFailure.
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Tags: boolean, Links/News, math

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I just started reading Scott Flansburg’s Math Magic book. It’s all about more efficient and intelligent ways of doing math. It’s an idea I’ve long wanted to try–to increase my speed and ability to crunch numbers in my head. The hard part is practice–how do you make yourself good at this without a lot of [...]

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To preface, I am not a mathematician. I can hold my own in most college-level math (I’ve taken 3 years of algebra, trig, geometry, 3 years of calculus, and 1 year linear algebra: where is all that knowledge now?), but I’m still easily impressed.
I’ve been working through an algorithm textbook (more on that later), which [...]

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