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The generally accessible posts of which I am most proud on this website are:

  • [Anki as Learning Superpower] (how to squeeze a bit more out of your Anki usage)
  • [The Ravenous] (parody of [The Raven])
  • [Thinking Styles] (about how people think differently to each other)
  • [On Shakespeare] (the foolishness of teaching Shakespeare in school to pupils of a young age)

The mathematical posts:

  • [Slightly Silly Sylow Pseudo-Sonnets][Sylow sonnets] (poetical proof of the Sylow Theorems)
  • [General Adjoint Functor Theorem][GAFT] (exposition on the GAFT and how it is actually a very natural theorem)

The computer-science posts:

  • [Defunctionalisation] (on an underappreciated method of writing software)
  • [Continuation-passing style] (on motivating a technique in functional programming)
  • [Rewriting the Technical Interview, in Mathematica] (digging into the internals of Mathematica's parser)
  • [In praise of --dry-run][dryrun] (a technique for writing better tools)
  • [Metatesting your property-based tests] (an easy technique to improve your property-based tests)

[The Ravenous]: {{< ref "2013-10-20-the-ravenous" >}} [The Raven]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven "The Raven Wikipedia page" [Sylow sonnets]: {{< ref "2013-08-31-slightly-silly-sylow-pseudo-sonnets" >}} [Thinking Styles]: {{< ref "2013-08-18-thinking-styles" >}} [On Shakespeare]: {{< ref "2013-07-21-on-shakespeare" >}} [GAFT]: {{< ref "2015-12-24-general-adjoint-functor-theorem" >}} [Defunctionalisation]: {{< ref "2020-03-04-defunctionalisation" >}} [Anki as Learning Superpower]: {{< ref "2020-10-23-anki-learning" >}} [Continuation-passing style]: {{< ref "2021-03-22-continuation-passing-style" >}} [Rewriting the Technical Interview, in Mathematica]: {{< ref "2021-03-17-rewriting-technical-interview" >}} [dryrun]: {{< ref "2021-02-20-in-praise-of-dry-run" >}} [Metatesting your property-based tests]: {{< ref "2021-02-06-property-based-metatesting" >}}