spectrumgomas @spectrumgomas@functional.cafe

It took all day, but it functions just fine.

It's hacky, and not-so-intuitive, but I'm happy with how smoothly it's going (considering who's writing it)

#Spook

https://gitlab.com/MutoShack/spook

@aurora voy lento pero seguro, he llegado a la boda de Melissa Agretti.

A stained glass window of a Latin square (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Ronald_Fisher_window) will be removed from Cambridge U. (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/27/cambridge-gonville-caius-college-eugenicist-window-ronald-fisher) because it honors prominent eugenicist R. A. Fisher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher).

The window visualizes a nice piece of mathematics, with a long history that surprisingly originates in Korea (predating Euler) but in context among windows celebrating Cambridge luminaries it could not be separated from Fisher's racist history, so it's sad but I think it's the right decision.

MooGNU

MooGNU (a copyleft alternative to copyrighted NyanCat) Source: https://archive.org/details/M00GNU
https://peertube.mastodon.host/static/webseed/13aff225-00d2-4eb1-a6e9-6c4eedcd77b8-360.mp4

Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation: https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582070

Ritchie's doctoral committee signed off in 1968, but the Harvard Library wanted a bound copy and he was unwilling to pay the binding costs so he never officially received his Ph.D.

According to the post, the thesis defines a simple model of computation characterizing primitive recursion, within which one can prove that the complexity and growth rates of primitive recursive functions are equal.