Monthly Archives: May 2015

Thoughts on grade inflation, part I: is grade inflation bad?

Grade inflation.  It’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, and ruining everything.  …right? Well… I’m not so sure.  What I do know is that the typical conversation around grade inflation frustrates me. At best, it often leaves many important assumptions unstated and unquestioned.  Is … Continue reading

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Pan-Galactic Division in Haskell

Summary: given an injective function , it is possible to constructively “divide by ” to obtain an injection , as shown recently by Peter Doyle and Cecil Qiu and expounded by Richard Schwartz. Their algorithm is nontrivial to come up … Continue reading

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