On Software Engineering, Mathematics
and Philosophy

On Mathematics: Sleeping Beauty  •  The Mu Puzzle  •  Non-Transitive Probabilities  •  Finding the Poisonous Compound  •  On a Problem About Prisioners  •  Crazy Guy  •  Sock Drawer  •  Trials Until First Success  •  Finding Your Birthmate  •  Coin vs Die  •  The Flippant Juror  •  One, Two, Three Dice  •  The Cliff-Hanger  •  Coach or Kasparov  •  All Gambozinos are White

On Others: How to Write an Academic Report  •  And so it (re-)Begins...

On Philosophy: On Dust and Immortality  •  The Myth of Sisyphus  •  Review of Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect  •  Artificial Intelligence?  •  A Pattern Language for Hopeless Argumentation

On Poetry: Your Kiss  •  I Didn't Want  •  Epilogue

On Software: Challenges From The Industry to Teaching Computer Science  •  AOM Redux Part I - Software Crisis  •  Why Post-Functional Programming Matters  •  An Exploration of Genetic Algorithms in Scala  •  Turtles all the way down (or up?)  •  Some Words on the Epistemology of Patterns  •  Preliminary Thoughts on Software Design - Part I  •  The Shape of Software

who am i

I am a Professor of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, CTO and Co-Founder of ShiftForward, and Senior Researcher at INESC TEC. Here you can find my PhD Thesis and my Résumé.

what is this

This is a blog about software, some mathematics, and the occasional philosophy. Not necessarily in that order.

where am i

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