Francesco FrancoThings I am truly grateful forI am grateful to have a wonderful family that came to my aid and sacrificed much for me at the darkest period of my life when I lost my…Nov 23, 2023Nov 23, 2023
Francesco FrancoTribute To Steven Jay GouldSteven Jay Gould was a paleontologist, evolutionary biological theorist, developmental biologist and popular science writer who challenged…Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023
Francesco FrancoWhat you do when you have “no life”Life sometimes continues to roll along even when you have no reason to live anymore, no purpose, no job, no wife, no children and no…Nov 17, 2023Nov 17, 2023
Francesco FrancoOne HELL of a life (Part 2)The strangest thing happened on our way over to Italy in October of 2000: I suddenly and spontaneously felt much better. I still have no…Nov 13, 2023Nov 13, 2023
Francesco FrancoOne HELL of a life (Part 1)It doesn’t really matter if I write or do not write. Anything I say from here on will either be dismissed as exaggerated self-pity or the…Nov 13, 2023Nov 13, 2023
Francesco FrancoThe Strongest Man in the WorldIt all actually started when I was living off campus in Boston, Massachusetts round about 1987–1988. I started to experience bizarre…Nov 5, 2023Nov 5, 2023
Francesco FrancoFunctionalism and its varieties in Philosophy of MindFunctionalism is a philosophical theory that aims to explain mental states and processes in terms of their function or role in a broader…Oct 15, 2023Oct 15, 2023
Francesco FrancoBanker’s AlgorithmThe Banker’s algorithm is a resource allocation and deadlock avoidance algorithm developed by Edgers Dijkstra that tests for safety by…Sep 19, 20231Sep 19, 20231
Francesco FrancoMorality and Artificial AgentsUnless you subscribe to some version of divine command theory (i.e. the idea that morality has a transcendental origin), then you must hold…Sep 11, 20231Sep 11, 20231
Francesco FrancoFenwick TreesContinuing in my series of advanced tree-based data structures, today I want to discuss an interesting alternative to Segment Trees called…Sep 2, 2023Sep 2, 2023