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Re:"Why not just use Lean?" on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:08AM (#47922655)
Good post! +1
Re:Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:48PM (#44466500)
Thanks for posting. I look forward to following along.

I have had chronic pain and other annoying functional neurological symptoms for the past 4 years. It started about halfway throughout my PhD.

I was born with congenital torticollis (fibrosis of the right sternocleidomastoid muscle) and had surgery for this twice when I was young. I also had 3 other surgical procedures for different reasons as a child.

Because my pain started in my neck and shoulder, I was set on believing that my previous surgeries were the cause of my pain. But as I learned more, meditated more, did yoga more, and faced pushback (and lots of confusion) from health professionals, it became clear that my symptoms are mainly "mind-body" (I hate that dualistic term).

I'd be very interested in talking more.

Re:Geometric Search Trees on Monday September 16, 2024 @08:08AM (#41555209)
The presentation of the webpage is really really nice. Especially the highlighting/linking of mathematical definitions and bound variables.

How did you achieve this?

Great paper for exploring the foundations of Isabelle. It's a shame the rest of the literature needed to properly understand Isabelle is scattered amongst many papers.