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• [18-12-2025] Argument from recollection in Phaedo is self-illustratory
  The argument from recollection in Plato's "Phaedo" displays a clever writing trick, being self-illustratory, and leveraging the dialogue form to convey additional meaning.
• [19-09-2024] Compiler correctness
  How bugs in compilers are different from bugs in more common programs?
• [19-01-2023] My note-taking process
  A workflow of reading, annotating, and note-keeping.
• [26-07-2022] Programming languages and computer systems (1)
  A first post in a series about computer systems, their design and the role of programming languages.
• [22-03-2022] Job offers [RnD, compilers, PLT, systems] are welcome
  Due to recent events I am heading from academia to RnD and hence open to job offers.
• [12-12-2020] When functions dissolve
  Deconstructing the functions in the soup of assembly code.
• [16-09-2018] Writing essays
  Writing texts was an acquired taste for me. Here I am advicing my former self on how to become a better writer.
• [01-05-2018] Variance in programming languages
  Concepts of variance and contravariance in type systems of programming languages.
• [17-03-2018] Advice for programming students
  What I wish I have heard when I was 18.
• [11-03-2018] Why every programming student should learn Coq
  How playing with automated theorem provers may be beneficial for developing a set of skills which is crucial to any programmer.
• [17-01-2018] Memory in CompCert: overview
  How memory model is described in CompCert, a certified C compiler written in Coq and Ocaml.
• [13-01-2018] A beautiful intuition on associativity
• [27-10-2017] On teaching programmers and mathematicians
  Some bits of my personal experience on teaching various subjects, specifically related to mathematics or programming.
• [18-07-2017] Impressions of René Magritte
  Some bits of my personal experience on teaching various subjects, specifically related to mathematics or programming.
• [26-04-2017] The virtues of using goto
  Using goto is marginalized in programmers community which likes the simple one-line recipes for the complex challenges of writing code. In some situations, however, using goto is the best tool in your box, and I will show you why.
• [29-07-2016] Proving dependent equalities in Coq with SSReflect
  A little trick.
• [16-07-2016] Causation in modern philosophy of science
  Cause and consequences are one of the fundamentals of human reasoning. However, these concepts are based on intuition and lack strictness and connection to the real word. This post is a quick introduction to modern causation from the philosophical point of view.
• [29-05-2016] Proving type inequalities in Coq
  A trick on proving inequalities of types with different numbers of inhabitants.

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