Kyle Burke

(he/they) Professor of Computer Science at Florida Southern College. Researcher: Computational Complexity and Combinatorial Game Theory. Interested in: Voting Systems, HPC + OOP, Magic: The Gathering.

Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Looking forward to sorting some red .

19 hours ago
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Common wisdom: Variable names should be meaningful and clear.

How often do you have to write subtraction functions before minuend and subtrahend always win out over thingToSubtractFrom and thingToRemove?

P.S. my partner suggested "numerator" and "subtractor".

May 21, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

After a bunch of busy days, some is good with the younger kid.

May 08, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

I found out about three academic sessions this summer, so I added them to my list: kyleburke.info/CGTMeetings.php There are now four upcoming things! The new ones are a session at the CMS summer meetings, a session at TCA in Portugal, and Games at Dal!

May 04, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

The number of people who have spoken to Drew Carey about boolean formula is not zero: cbs.com/shows/video/j60_De6rS4 (You don't have to watch too far into the episode.) Good job, Matt!

May 04, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

First year at completed!

May 03, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Thought of a good question to add to my exam question bank.

May 02, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Played some Palace today, which is easily the game of choice among students in the department.

May 01, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Randomness did me bad when showing off on Monday.

April 26, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

What would be a good resource on the history of to figure out which systems were "firsts" for some things? E.g.:

* What was the first batch processing system on a Turing-complete computer? (Was it GM-NAA in 1956?)
* What was the first system that had data inaccessible from outside monitor mode?
* Was the UNIVAC 1103/ERA 1103A the first computer to use interrupts?
* Which was the first computer to use spooled batching?
(I have a whole bunch more questions like this! Firsts for things that my students might never have thought about (e.g. batching) as well as important OS concepts we still use today (e.g. time sharing).)

I'm also interested in knowing which systems were the first to combine some of these ideas.

Thank you for any direction you can give me!

April 21, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Magic with the younger kid.

April 19, 2023
Kyle Burke
CGTKyle@mathstodon.xyz

Council of Verona at

April 10, 2023