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Alok Singh
Personal blog · alok.github.iomathprogramming
Alok Singh writes Alok's blog, a personal blog at alok.github.io about math and programming. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “What it’s like to dissect a cadaver”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alok Singh's blog for posts on the prime factorization of zero and on the cost of dissecting a corpse. One commenter disputes the math in the prime factorization post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alok Singh's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- What it’s like to dissect a cadaver4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
- Using Vim's Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-29
What Hacker News says?
I wish Zed had built-in APIs for extension developers to allow for more customizable text transformations. In particular, I want to write tools that have more control over what a buffer displays. Imagine a Markdown extension that gives Zed something close to the WYSIWG experience of Obsidian. To make this happen, I think something like a customizable presentation layer to transform the buffer's contents and adjust c…
Comment linking /2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/
on “Zed is 1.0”Submitted What it’s like to dissect a cadaver as a story · 208 points
HN discussionhttps://alok.github.io/2022/09/12/y539043/
Comment linking /2022/09/12/y539043/
on “Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations [pdf]”Submitted Derivative at a Discontinuity as a story · 134 points
HN discussionThe fundamental theorem of arithmetic is defined over "every integer greater than 1", not "every whole number" as the post says. (and that makes sense intuitively -- what about negative numbers?) The idea is cute, but the the wrong theorem definition in the premise really spoils it -- can't recommend this page to anyone. Edit: that blog is has wrong math sometimes? Like this page https://alok.github.io/2022/09/22/h4…
Comment linking /2022/09/22/h455524/
on “What is the prime factorization of zero?”Submitted What it's like to dissect a cadaver (2022) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://alok.github.io/assets/lean-position-paper.pdf i talked about the lisp curse in this old paper. it's rough but explicitly mentions it
Comment linking /assets/lean-position-paper.pdf
on “A Perfectable Programming Language”Submitted What is the prime factorization of zero? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want to dissect a corpse, all you need is $60 and five hours: https://alok.github.io/2022/11/09/dissection/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036
Comment linking /2022/11/09/dissection/
on “Death as Entertainment at the Paris Morgue”Submitted Which of the classical groups are compact? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vim's Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What it's like to dissect a cadaver (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Derivative at a discontinuity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Ideal Analogy? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Perfectable Programming Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another way of doing big O notation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vim's Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vim's Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alan Perlis (2018) as a story · 1 points
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