Tag Archives: computer science

a curious computer science problem

I was discussing linguistics with my esteemed colleague and close friend Alex English earlier when I stumbled upon a very interesting computer science problem: the generation of grammatically-correct, semantically meaningful palindromes. The minute I typed my message about it I regretted it, because my immediate impression was that this is an extremely difficult problem.

Xmas

I’m down in Saint Louis for Xmas right now. On the way down I met this girl, Martha, and thought it was so totally random but then I remembered that’s basically how I met Leila (s/bus/airplane/). Have I really been meeting random people everywhere all this time and only just now, now that I’ve got [...]