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Category Archives: academics
R.L. Moore topologist and racist
If you read this down to the bottom you get a little hint, but you have to read something like this to understand what that little hint means. In graduate school she was very much alone, though she was a … Continue reading
limits of state diagrams
Here’s a graph of a simple state machine of somewhat under 512 states that models a dumb fifo queue. The initial state is “e” for empty. We can append 1,2 or 3 to this queue and can delete the first … Continue reading
Computer science as a failed discipline again
As a senior researcher, I am saddened to see funding agencies, department heads, deans, and promotion committees encouraging younger researchers to do shallow research. As a reader of what should be serious scientific journals, I am annoyed to see the … Continue reading
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