I have (very) recently gotten into the study of algorithmic randomness, and figure that airing some things out here on the blog might do me some good. I will not be providing an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of the area here. What I will do in this post is give some basic definitions, and [...]

Here's something I just read about over at LogBlog. It's a graphic novel with a logical focus, written by Apostolos Doxiadis (author of the mathematically-tinged 1992 novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture) and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Papadimitriou might be best known to logicians from his textbook with Harry Lewis on the theory of computation. [...]

This past summer, I finished and defended my Master's thesis.  Though my work has moved from linguistics and philosophy of language to causal and statistical reasoning (the Tetrad project), I'm still researching natural-language in my spare time. Therefore, I will be writing a series of posts here on Unwanted Capture concerning my linguistic work, both [...]