Robert Andrew Spencer

A few months ago I found myself with a fun little problem and decided to solve it in the most insane way I knew how.

Here’s something you can do but definitely shouldn’t.

A strange thing keeps happening in my professional life: people keep calling me a wizard1.

Which of these identically implemented Python functions has the best signature?

A long time ago I had a professor who was into photographing atmospheric optical phenomena like sun dogs.

This bank holiday weekend I found myself writing a small amount of documentation for project I was doing.

Matt Levine is a columnist at Bloomberg where he has a column called Money Stuff.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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The following is valid python code: def some_function(): ...

Let’s talk about floats.

This is my thesis for my Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Click on commit hashes in git log --graph in order to check out that commit.

This year, I’m doing the Advent of Code and for career reasons I’m doing it in q.

My childhood bookshelf was sorted according to the Dewey Decimal System.

In the course of my PhD, I was often working with quantum numbers.

An excerpt from “The Pocket Guide to Artistry in the 20th Century” by Sir A.

I use AntennaPod to listen to podcasts.

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There are three types of lies.

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I am too young to reminisce.

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Here is an interesting picture: Earlier this year, my partner and I holidayed in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

I published microjson today.

How should you eat your eggs?

Here’s a picture from a project I’ve been tinkering with for a few weeks.

I recently was browsing some code on GitHub when I came across a strange source file.

This one is specifically for the students writing exams.

This one is easy: Never explicitly leave part of the proof “up to the reader”.

Of all the types of proof, proof by induction is the one I see botched the most often.

When writing a proof we often have a choice of notation.

Proof can rapidly get complicated or involve multiple cases and edge conditions.

You may recall my rant about LaTeX in 2020.

I’ve done a fair share of reading mathematical proofs.

My PhD is in Pure Mathematics.