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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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Things on the blog are probably going to be quiet for a while. My beloved pup, Nutmeg, died last night. He had pancreatic cancer, which had spread to his lungs, liver, and bones. He finally reached the point where...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:10 AM • 21 Comments •
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Seed's tech guy did a reset and restart of the server, and it appears that now I'm able to turn off registration without completely disabling comments. So everyone who's been having trouble commenting, please give it a try again,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:59 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Chatter
Just a quick status notice: a bunch of commenters have been having problems with the system demanding authetication to be able to comment. I'm trying to fix it with the help of the SB tech folks. My first attempt...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:08 AM • 4 Comments •
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I'm going to jump into the framing wars again. As I mentioned last time, I think that most folks who are "opposed" to framing really don't understand what they're talking about - and I'll once again explain why. But...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:24 AM • 95 Comments •
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As you've probably noticed, things have been rather slow around here lately. I've got more posts in the works on group theory and abstract algebra - but they take a lot of time to research and write, so they'll...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:18 AM • 75 Comments •
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At Science, Education, and Society, the Urban Scientist posts a meme to name five women scientists from each of a list of fields. Sadly, my fields are left off the list. So I'll respond in my own way by...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:39 PM • 24 Comments •
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Over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, Janet Stemwedel, our resident ethicist, has been writing about academic dishonesty and how professional researchers should respond to it. I've been on the receiving end of dishonesty on three occasions - ranging...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:16 PM • 22 Comments •
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I was just perusing my stats on sitemeter - and to my amazement, I discovered that Good Math/Bad Math had its 2 millionth view this weekend. 2 million pageviews! I never dreamt that this little blog would ever see a...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:12 PM • 16 Comments •
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ScienceBlogs recently branched out and opened up a German-language edition of ScienceBlogs in cooperation with a German media firm. Over at the in-house blog Page 3.14, our blogging goddess, Ginny, is asking for help with what languages readers think SB...
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Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm leaving on vacation. I'll be spending the week in Yellowstone National Park. I'm not sure what the network situation is there, but I'm not expecting much. Unfortunately, this year I didn't have time to...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:16 PM • 5 Comments •
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