Nov 2, 2026, 1:30 PMHappy Birthday to George Boole, founder of Boolean Logic, who was born on this day in 1815.
In 1854, George Boole published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, which introduced a mathematical system for expressing logical relationships using algebra. This system allowed concepts to be represented as true or false, and then manipulated using operations like AND, OR, and NOT.
Today, Boolean logic remains fundamental to computing.
Nov 2, 2026, 1:41 PM@ACM that’s part one of the book. The rest explains that 0 and 1 are the discrete endpoints of a probability and expands a mathematical basis for combining probabilities that, unfortunately, computer scientists didn’t pick up on.
@leeg @ACM just heard this exact extension from a friend teaching me about transfinite numbers. how curious that ACM would selectively censor the potential for a middle ground between two extreme positions. there's probably no political valence to that tendency of the institution that hands out the turing award to obfuscate more powerful logical constructs when teaching their preferred canon to students of computing
@ACM folks are either already aware of George Boole, or, not