Stories by mcguire

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

Hold My Mead: A Bibliography for Historians Hitting Back at White Supremacy

Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini: the rise and fall of a celebrity scientist

The difference between “premiss” and “premise”

Goodstein's Theorem

Ellen Ullman, programmer in the ’70s and ’80s, on building a career in tech

Programming language syntax that I don’t like

Verifying Quicksort

Bayesian agent should be able to make good predictions, but cannot do so

[Your Roomba] is also gathering maps of your house

Manufacturing equals prosperity? Our data analysis proves this wrong

Verifying Quick Search

Sanitizing Sensitive Data: How to Get It Right (or at Least Less Wrong)[pdf]

San Francisco California Residential Rent and Rental Statistics

The bug in Quick Search

Applied Formal Logic: Brute Force String Search

Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill

A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women

Is It Better to Rent or Buy?

The Gettier problem

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