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Bergen, Norway

Currently a PhD research fellow in maths and CS at Høgskulen på Vestlandet. In the past I have worked as a musician, as a programmer on magnetohydrodynamics number-crunchers, and studied geophysics.

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Is linear algebra more “fully understood” than other maths disciplines?

linear-algebra soft-question incompleteness asked Mar 16, 2016 at 21:03

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39 votes

Is it true that a space-filling curve cannot be injective everywhere?

analysis general-topology asked Jun 3, 2011 at 22:28

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34 votes

Do you violate the GPL if you provide source code that cannot be compiled?

gpl copyleft asked Mar 29, 2016 at 11:35

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31 votes

Is there a simple way to load extra packages to ghci when invoked via cabal repl?

haskell cabal ghc-pkg asked Jul 14, 2014 at 12:51

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30 votes

Is there any standard implementation of the "trivial constraint", or "object class"?

haskell typeclass constraint-kinds asked Feb 6, 2014 at 14:00

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29 votes

When/why did computers come to have push-button main power switches where on and off is the same push action?

power user-interface asked Apr 22, 2022 at 21:15

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26 votes

Why can't you just parachute down right from orbit?

reentry parachute asked Aug 30, 2018 at 16:31

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24 votes

Why can't you take a hoverboard on a plane?

air-travel safety hand-luggage asked Sep 22, 2018 at 16:33

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Is returning with `std::move` sensible in the case of multiple return statements?

c++ c++11 move-semantics return-value-optimization asked Mar 2, 2012 at 11:35

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22 votes

How to properly link object files written in Haskell?

c++ haskell linker ghc ffi asked May 28, 2018 at 15:36

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