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        <title><![CDATA[Eric Normand's Website]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Eric Normand writes about functional programming and Clojure.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Denotational vs operational]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It's time to retire the imperative vs declarative dichotomy]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What are formal systems?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A programmer-y exploration of their weird and cool nature]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Post-Conj update]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It's all about the community]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A functional programming course in 6 books]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[My biggest fear with AI]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stagnation, not replacement]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[LLMs' surprise teaches us about ourselves]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[How does a language model know, understand, and become expert?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The economic inevitability of AI]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Renting shovels during the AI goldrush]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:03:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI, Lisp, and Programming]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Intertwined since the beginning]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:02:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Work and meta-work]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[At what point does meta-work become work?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:02:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Too many degrees of freedom]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Error throwing and catching is ironically full of errors]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:01:35 GMT</pubDate>
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