Shriram Krishnamurthi

Yep. I say that one should be happy to get a segfault in a C program — at least you know something went wrong, instead of just getting, oh, 17.

Thanks for the note about comments. I added that now.

CSV: yeah! I had left that as open in my review:

> There are all kinds of issues w/ spinning your own (can you list them?).

Ah, sorry, free shipping was part of the spec. Good catch, thanks. Updated README.

Ah, great, I really wanted to see Regehr's views on CCC! I feared he might not want to engage with it at all. (-:

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Sure, but that feels uncouth.

No, Claude writes the code.

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Okay, there seems to be some interest in this. I can't make the class video public, but here are my notes that transcribe what I said.
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Ah man, I'd love to… Student privacy stuff. All my stuff is locked up.

Would be really great if we had a department advisory board that could push the department and university to get class videos out!

Just spent an hour today in our agentic AI coding class showing all the way Claude Code produces *subtly* bad programs for a pretty trivial application. Wrong in some ways, but just bad in other ways. Reading its output is always a sobering experience.

Getting used to water taking an hour to reach boiling point again, ugh. No wonder the UK had to go with 240V: can't have tea be your national drink at 110V. (Yes, I know…)

It's really important to separate the news and editorial sides of WSJ. To my mind, the reporting side of WSJ is the best in national papers, and far less clickbaity and fluffy than the NYT.

@geomblog.bsky.social I figure you probably know this book too…

I may be one of the last generation of students who was exposed to Silvanus Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy"(published in 1910, still floating around Bangalore in the mid-80s). So I was delighted to find this blue plaque for him in Bristol UK. And now you can find it online! calculusmadeeasy.org

This is pretty unfair. There are several other real newspapers, some regional, but most of all, at the national level, definitely the WSJ.

Turns out my hotel in Soho was just around the corner from this replica of John Snow's water pump — in front of his eponymous pub — with, poetically, its handle removed. (Would you drink water from it?)

Huh. Something surreal about reading that!

In addition to the many things I didn't like about the Natural History Museum in London, one thing I especially disliked is a huge wall given to showing *constellations* (or, as I prefer to think of them, "old-school hallucinations"). Let's have some actual science, people.

OMG this is amazing! Is this by Claude Code? What was the prompt — the first para?

Claude makes an incredible writing companion. I took @shriram.bsky.social's advice and installed Claude code, and I'm using it a sounding board for working on my book. What would have been a day or two kicking around a concept until it crystalizes has become tens of minutes of discussion.

Yes, exactly!

Iranian-born Soheila Sohkanvari's brilliant Leave to Remain, currently on display at the Tate Britain, has numerous real passports from various countries, with fake passport-style stamps alongside real ones.
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Procession of cars flying the Iranian lion-and-sun (pre-Islamic Revolution) flag.

Certainly picked an interesting day to walk past the Iranian embassy… There's not going to be a lot of quiet in Knightsbridge tonight!

An empty bench in Soho Square

🎶 An empty bench in Soho Square
If you'd have come you'd have found me there 🎵
—Kirsty MacColl

Yeah, I saw this, amazing stuff!!!