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That's a good observation, and yeah it seems like there's something more going on. I think the weakened monus laws only ensure that a heap built using the comparison+subtraction method in the post is actually a valid difference-based heap. The stronger property might need the ⇔ you have here.

06.03.2026 08:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh no worries! I don’t post here much

05.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

POPL talk on Hyperfunctions:

youtu.be/9M_E7mPaLQ4

27.01.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately, I think that some peoples' reaction to this scandal will be to stop listening to all research on lifting (at least in the short term).

14.11.2025 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

in informing casual/general population exercise/diet regimens.

The shame is that I think there are other fitness people online who actually do write about serious science, and present it in a digestible and responsible way. (Greg Nuckols being probably the best example)

14.11.2025 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think a lot of his advice was unscientific in subtle ways (i.e. generalising from narrow study results to overly-broad training prescriptions). The fact that he associated his brand so much with "science" did a lot of damage, and gave people the wrong impression of what role science should play

14.11.2025 10:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
[POPL'25] Formalising Graph Algorithms with Coinduction
[POPL'25] Formalising Graph Algorithms with Coinduction YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

POPL Talk on "Formalising Graph Algorithms with Coinduction"

youtu.be/sgNT2w_f-o4

Paper here: doisinkidney.com/posts/2024-1...

04.05.2025 09:14 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0