The Universe of Discourse

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Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.

The Universe of Discourse

Entries

  • Almost-trivial theorems
    February 12, 2026

    A couple of years back I wrote an article about this bit of mathematical folklore: Mathematical folklore contains a s...

  • Crooked politicians love crab cakes!
    February 12, 2026

    I recently posted an article about the 2013 Philadelphia Traffic Court fiasco, in which most of the Traffic Court jud...

  • John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds
    February 12, 2026

    BuyArtificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback) One of the better books I read in colle...