J.N. Thomas
@hypnagogue.bsky.social
Dad, husband, professor (math and CS), and researcher. Counter of angels on the heads of pins.
Probing the intersection of mathematics, logic, language, and philosophy. Views are, for better or worse, mine alone.
Probing the intersection of mathematics, logic, language, and philosophy. Views are, for better or worse, mine alone.
Once you use it, you can't go back.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Once you use it, you can't go back.
Meanwhile, pluralists
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Meanwhile, pluralists
Reposted by J.N. Thomas
“Stop making up these numbers” from someone whose entire grift for the last 20 years has been pretending to have quantified the probabilities of events about which the kindest true thing that can be said is that they have not yet been rigorously proven to be literally impossible.
September 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Stop making up these numbers” from someone whose entire grift for the last 20 years has been pretending to have quantified the probabilities of events about which the kindest true thing that can be said is that they have not yet been rigorously proven to be literally impossible.
Anyway, literate Agda with markdown? Lightyears better than Bird style literate Haskell, which I think is too annoying to use. That's the only way I've tried literate Haskell, and I hated it lol.
August 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anyway, literate Agda with markdown? Lightyears better than Bird style literate Haskell, which I think is too annoying to use. That's the only way I've tried literate Haskell, and I hated it lol.
Well, ymmv, of course, because I'm really just a logician who evangelizes the promise of formal verification, but for my purposes literate Agda with markdown is great for docs, and I love the idea of single-source-of-truth research papers in literate Agda with LaTeX. [...]
August 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Well, ymmv, of course, because I'm really just a logician who evangelizes the promise of formal verification, but for my purposes literate Agda with markdown is great for docs, and I love the idea of single-source-of-truth research papers in literate Agda with LaTeX. [...]
I’m a big fan of the literate programming built into Agda.
August 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I’m a big fan of the literate programming built into Agda.