Christopher League

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Computer science professor at Long Island University – interested in functional programming, type systems, software reliability, astronomy, and reproducible research. One of Zoë’s dads. 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 See pinned post(s) for more →
webhttps://contrapunctus.net/
keys/IDshttps://keyoxide.org/b5f85cecffea88b573ac9581c31d301c137aba9a
time zoneAmerica/New_York
pronounshe/him

Some of my quantitative quiz questions in a cryptography course appear to be safe from DeepSeek because it refuses to brute-force results or check its work. 😄

Python disagrees with you, hoss:
>>> pow(2, 18393, 164987) == 80662
False

/me, overwhelmed department chair in front of your class because an adjunct flaked
Working through a four-year backlog of matting and framing. This is a cactus painting by Zoë that I particularly liked (from second grade) and a set of prints from Numberphile: portions of the Mandelbrot set, the Ulam spiral, and a Piece of Pi (signed by Brady).
“That's enough tap-tapping for today, human.” #caturday
Okay, grammar-bot. "Theis's conclusion." 🙄
Roaming the streets of Brooklyn in medieval robes, as one does, and people say “Congratulations,” and I smile and wonder how they perceive a bright-eyed graduate rather than a vacant husk. 😅
Overhearing Ms. 8yo on Zoom (snow day), asked to compose a word problem involving multiplication by 12. “Two friends went to the store. Maya bought 12 apples. Kaya bought 8 apples. They decide to multiply their numbers together. What number do they get?” 😄
re·​dun·​​dant [ri-ˈdən-dənt] 𝑎𝑑𝑗.
Like an unopened magazine about “Dads with ADHD” sitting on the bedside table for two months.

The “start reply with” feature on Outlook is so relentlessly positive – not just “Yes,” but “Yes, I'd be happy to.”

What if this feature was actually useful – Professor edition

[wavy dream sequence transition]