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Finding the fun in good math; Shredding bad math and squashing the crackpots who espouse it.
Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: Cantor Crankery
Another chaos theory post is in progress. But while I was working on it, a couple of comments arrived on some old posts. In general, I'd reply on those posts if I thought it was worth it. But the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:25 AM • 182 Comments •
Category: Bad Logic
One of my pet peeves about people and math is that most people don't really have a clue of what math is. I've been writing this blog for something over three years, and by the standards of a lot...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:10 PM • 53 Comments •
Category: Bad Logic
A bunch of readers, and one commenter in another thread, have all hit me with a pathetic monstrosity of a purported proof of God. Several have even been misled by the URL where the dreadful thing is posted, thinking...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:15 AM • 39 Comments •
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