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Thursday, September 17, 2026

Partial Compilers and Problems

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    [with apologies to xkcd for copying the style and not being so good]  A compiler does not always have to do everything in one go. A com...

Polynomials with Predicate: a Dialectica reading

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I have just put up a new preprint, Polynomials with Predicates: a Dialectica Reading . It started from a fairly simple observation: if you ...

Natural Language Is Not Going Away

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Quite a few weeks ago, my friend Simone Severini sent me a book he wrote with Andrea Borghini, Science, Ltd.: Notes on the Research Enterpri...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

What Is Actually Linear Here?

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                                         [Andrea Schalk, Summer 2007, from her webpage ] I have been playing with a very small variation on ...

Counting LICS again

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  I wish I could be bringing better news. I have been counting LICS committees again. All the numbers below come from two places, both publi...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Synthetic Mathematics in the Amazon

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Talking about Synthetic Mathematics in the middle of the Amazon rainforest felt slightly surreal. Parintins is famous for the Festival do Bo...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Problems, Problems Everywhere

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  Kolmogorov and Alexandrov on a trip. From CultureMath , 2022.    Problems, Problems Everywhere  There’s a particular kind of mathematical ...
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Valeria de Paiva is a mathematician and computer scientist based in Cupertino, CA. She worked as a Principal Scientist at Samsung Research America. Previously she was a senior applied scientist at Nuance Communications, Sunnyvale, CA. Earlier she was at Rearden Commerce and she was a search analyst at Cuil, Inc. in Menlo Park, CA, from May 2008-Sept 2010. Before that she was a research scientist at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California (2000-2008). She received her PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1988 for work on "Dialectica Categories", under Martin Hyland's supervision, and has ever since worked on logical approaches to computation, especially using Category Theory.
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