Sometimes you have to refactor something. It may seem like it works, but the code is horrible-looking and inefficient. Consider for example this gem: No documentation, missing @Override annotation, quadratic blow-up of something that should be linear, unmotivated cloning of an immutable class, over-shadowing of field variables, leading to a clumsy syntax, and a code-structure […]
The Burning Cottage: An Approach to Solving the Mash/Meat-Equilibrium
TL;DR: I made cottage pie and put bacon on top. Then I wrote a long-winded description of it.
This solves the so-called mash/meat-equilibrium, which is a variant of the Nash equilibrium, just more delicious. The mash/meat-equilibrium states that
The mash should at all times by covered by meat on all sides in order to achieve a global optimum of the deliciousness.
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Jawsome
How jawsome ((Jawsome is the international abbreviation of jaw-droppingly awesome. Yes, I made that up.)) is this? Backstreet Boys are following me on Twitter. They follow less than 7500 people and have almost 300000 followers, yet they decide to follow moi, who until this wasn’t even following them. I’m famous by association! So what if […]
Time is Not a Four-letter Word
Presentation I’ll give right now! How to add time to Declare by translating to timed LTL and timed automata. Also how we can use this to give a priori advice concerning time, detect errors, and support planning. Edit: There’s a slight error in the timed automaton shown; it allows going Backstage, then Getting Drunk, letting […]
Declare Rebranding
Faced with the threat of work, I decided to rebrand Declare. I basically changed the name to lowercase (from typographically ugly and misleading DECLARE), changed the name of a few of the programs and some minor details. See all about the name change on the Declare website. So, that is pretty sensible. During this, I […]
Declare, Modular Declare, and iTasks
Presentation introducing Declare and the new module concept conceived together with Bas Lijnen and implemented in Declare and iTasks. Also, new concert photos of Britney 😉 […]