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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.

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Recent Posts

• Linear Programming
• Selective Data and Global Warming
• Iterated Zero-Sum Games
• Suited Assholes on the Subway
• Book Review: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
• Implementing Compact Binary Heaps
• Binary Heaps
• Simple Games, Utility Functions, and Saddle Points
• More Bad Bayesians: No ETs!
• Asteroid Apophosis, Orbit Changes, and Boy (not)Geniuses

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• arkadaÅŸlık on The Genius of Donald Knuth: Typesetting with Boxes and Glue
• Michael Barton on Sex Crimes and Illegal Immigrants: Misuse of Statistics for Politics
• Jonathan Vos Post on Idiot Math Professors, Fractions, and the Fun of Math
• Lim Ee Hai on Idiot Math Professors, Fractions, and the Fun of Math
• Jonathan Vos Post on Responding to Granville Sewell about his Fraudulent Experiments
• Wry Mouth on Selective Data and Global Warming
• Torbjörn Larsson, OM on Selective Data and Global Warming
• Wry Mouth on Selective Data and Global Warming
• wk on Linear Programming
• Mark C. Chu-Carroll on Linear Programming

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