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Alex Beal's personal blog.
Latest posts
Underrated Risks of Buying a Home
Expansive soil, asbestos, and flooding.
Forecasting How Long It Takes to Make a Baby
How long does it take to make a baby and what are the risks along the way?
What I Learned This Year: A 2018 Retrospective
Taking stock of 2018, what I did, and what I learned.
Memento Mori
Years ago, I came across a visualization of my own mortality. It was an image composed of many tiny squares. Each square represented one month, and each row contained 12 of them, one for each month of the year.
My Social Network
My first serious job after graduating, I got on Twitter. Well, I got the interview at least. I'm not sure what I was tweeting about at the time. It was mostly silly nerdy stuff like trying to design my own system of time.
Symbolic Execution: Intuition and Implementation
In this article I give a brief tour of a program analysis technique called symbolic execution. As the title indicates, I aim to explain both the intuition behind the technique, and also the details of a simple implementation. My intended audience is professional programmers who have no background in program analysis.
Laziness and Parallelism
How laziness enables modular parallelism.
Selling Laziness
A high level code-free argument for laziness in languages.
Learning Deep Learning
I'm not an expert in deep learning, but I have some experience learning deep learning.