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I wish to clarify this comment; what I said above is strictly correct, but several people have drawn an undesirable conclusion from it which leads me to find a clarification necess…

In english at least, we call this a “double entendre” ;-) Obviously the very purpose of double entendres is to troll those who will get the second meaning. duh!

To be clear, this name was chosen by the creator of Coq, Gerard Huet, with the intention of trolling. It wasn't an innocent French word.

There's nothing wrong with mutable data structures from a type soundness perspective. We know how to do it properly. But you need to get the type system right in order to include m…

TypeScript, the language which only just this month added a flag to turn off their completely incorrect subtyping rules for functions! A flag! I remember reporting this bug years a…

Not only this, but strangely it doesn't use standard methods or names in the categorical understanding of computer science. All this business about "CompFunc" as a category of sets…

For some of my documents which use opentype fonts, the difference is by a factor of 20-30 between xelatex and lualatex.

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I think it is not just a minority opinion, but just plain wrong.

> I have to admit I have no idea what racket is, nor did I do much more than scan the article. why have you commented then? Mao Zedong had a dope saying about this, "No investigati…

You went straight from saying, “Don't assume I'm a running dog!” to literally proving that you are a running dog! So cool.

This is not true. Some of the best papers ever, I have benefited from reading many times, more than three.

You (and I) are not in the target audience for those books. She does very serious mathematics, which should be defended; she gave a very nice talk on Trimble n-categories to my res…

Standard ML. I develop proof assistants.

Sorry for my harsh comment; here's what I'm thinking of... In math, you are dealing with many different kinds of object, not just numbers. In fact, one of the big realizations that…

wtf are you on about? That is not how math works.

Folks unironically using the term "thought leader" are one of the reasons people dislike Twitter...

Hmm, I think you should aim for sentences to be correct on their own and be arranged such that understanding & precision is built incrementally (in the way you suggest). This is ha…

That paper is just a bit of bureaucracy which demonstrates that total programs behave the same in a total language as when they are embedded into a partial language (which is an in…