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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.
Category: Bad Software
In my post yesterday, I briefly mentioned the problem with simulations as a replacement for animal testing. But I've gotten a couple of self-righteous emails from people criticizing that: they've all argued that given the quantity of computational resources...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:05 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: Coolness
In general, I try to keep the content of this blog away from my work. I don't do that because it would get me in trouble, but rather because I spend enough time on work, and blogging is my...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:50 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which were...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:53 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Computation
Technorati Tags: scale, computation, information Since people know I work for Google, I get lots of mail from folks with odd questions, or with complaints about some Google policy, or questions about the way that Google does some particular thing....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:25 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: Abstract Algebra
While doing some reading on rings, I came across some interesting stuff about Monoids and syntax. That's right up my alley, so I decided to write a post about that....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:39 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Networks
Colored Petri Nets The big step in Petri nets - the one that really takes them from a theoretical toy to a serious tool used by protocol developers - is the extension to colored Petri nets (CPNs). Calling them "colored"...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:03 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Graph Theory
Among many of the fascinating things that we computer scientists do with graphs is use them as a visual representation of computing devices. There are many subtle problems that can come up in all sorts of contexts where being...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:11 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: bad math
If you remember, a while back, I wrote about a British computer scientist named James Anderson, who claimed to have solved the "problem" of "0/0" by creating a new number that he called nullity. The creation of nullity was...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:01 AM • 41 Comments •
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