Come and work with us: Endowed full professorship in AI at the University of St Andrews. Applications close 5May2025 https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2135/0/448696/889/professor-in-artificial-intelligence-chair-ac2605ls

"Exploring the unconventional world of Common Lisp." Sound like we may have made a convert 😃 #lisp #emacs https://news.lavx.hu/article/exploring-the-unconventional-world-of-common-lisp-a-programmer-s-journey

TIL I learned (from the side of a truck parked outside my office) that the French term for "blind spots" (as in the places where a truck driver can't see you in their mirrors) is "angles mort", "death angles", which I will probably now have to use in English too 😃

Explorative programming #lisp I'm very much liking a lot of the ideas here. It addresses the hard question of how to help people tackle complicated problems, rather than trying (impossibly) to make all problems simple (and then inevitably getting tied up in workaround knots) https://blog.dziban.net/essays/explorative-programming/

I'm starting to pull together an annotated bibliography of Lisp books and papers, from historic to modern. It'll be a long job #lisp #commonlisp #scheme #emacs #retrocomputing https://simondobson.org/development/annotated-lisp-bibliography/

Come and work with us: St Andrews CS is looking for new academics https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/csblog/2023/01/30/the-school-of-computer-science-is-looking-to-recruit-new-academics/

Come and work with us: fully-funded PhD scholarship in complex systems available at the University of St Andrews. Closing date 1Mar2023 https://casrg.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/01/11/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-in-complex-systems-available/ #complexsystems #networkscience #phd #evertoexcel

I love free speech, me https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63999452