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The case against boolean logic

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/boolean-thinking/

Published: October 16, 2025 00:00

In my last post about generality, I tried to show how our ambition to discover ideas that are all-encompassing and eternal makes our worldview crumble, leaving us unable to think clearly even about simple issues with obvious solutions. Today, I want to…

My life is like a Prison

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/prison/

Published: September 27, 2025 00:00

“My life is like a prison” I wrote this in my personal website when I was 14. I was quite correct in pinpointing the problem, pinpointing how I, and many other people, felt, but I was off at identifying the cause — I thought, that I was kept in this prison…

Love

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/mushrooms/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

Every time you eat mushrooms, I have to try them too. Cause, if the mushrooms turn out to be poisonous and you die of slow and painful dead, I will die as well. I once dreamed that I was dying, You were beside me, I turned to you and said, “I don’t want to…

Monad

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/monad/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

title: A monad layout: microblog category: microblog tags: programming haskell — A monad is when you know how to convert $M (M a)$ to $M a$, but not $M a$ to $a$.

The level of progress in programming language design

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/pl-design/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

The level of progress in programming language design: Shortly after the first ever programming language was created, it’s author said that the language’s whole paradigm is flawed and we should do functional programming instead*. That was 46 years ago. We…

The road I walk

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/road/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

The road I walk is new. It’s made not of stone, but dirt. There are no road signs yet. And no bridges to cover the rivers. The road I walk is new, so people think that it is hard. “How do swim?” “Don’t you get dirty?” “How do you cope with all that…

I want to forget

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/forget/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

I want to forget Gaza. I want to forget the pain. I want to forget all dumb jokes, old song lyrics. I want to forget that most things ever happened, as remembering makes everything tedious. Forces you to become a bureaucrat of your memories, to look…

Walk

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/walk/

Published: May 27, 2025 00:00

Out for a walk I let go and let the city dissolve me.

A small Haskell task

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/haskell-task/

Published: April 3, 2025 00:00

Haskell is great. And I want more people to know it, so this is just a quick overview of it’s capabilities, and of code to solve a simple task I saw on Mastodon. The task is the following: Return a list of all combinations (i.e. order doesn’t matter) of…

Why should I care? Punks are correct, old wise philosophers are wrong

http://abuseofnotation.github.io/moral-law/

Published: March 10, 2025 00:00

Last week I learned that Robert Paul Wolff, the philosopher who got interested in anarchism and marxism, died and I wanted to write something dedicated to him — this was the first reason I started writing this. The second one, was to finally finish an…