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After retiring last July, the University Senate have approved my emeritus status. I'm grateful to Julian Bradfield for his work drafting the generous minute that accompanied the approval.


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Thomas Piketty is at it again. He and his colleagues at the World Inequality Lab have produced a report outlining, with quantitative modelling, what a just world might look like and how to get there. A summary appears in the

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TL;DR Build your Haskell projects 10-15% faster with this one simple trick! (Spoiler: the simple trick is to wait for the next major cabal-install release.)

In previous work (paid for by the Sovereign Tech Fund) we did a l...


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Today the 17 October 2019 I discussed a very remarkable fixed point theorem discovered by the Ukrainian mathematician Oleksandr Micholayovych Sharkovsky.

We recall that a periodic point of period for a function is a point suc...


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Freecoding improves broader programming proficiency

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