the_benno

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by the_benno 4y ago
The best source is usually authors' websites. You can find a free copy of just about any modern CS paper by googling its title in quotes with "filetype:pdf".
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by the_benno 5y ago
None of them -- Isabelle is developed at University of Cambridge and TU Munich by academics. The parent commenter seems to have some mistaken notions and assumptions about formal methods and PL research.
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by the_benno 5y ago
You can argue that it's growing and/or promising, but there is absolutely no way that the actual research funding coming out of blockchain-land can hold a candle to the big formal methods labs at major tech firms or traditional ac
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by the_benno 5y ago
Anders Moeller and Michael Schwartzbach's book [1] on static program analysis is a fantastic resource, with (I think) a great balance of theory and practice. If you want to get really deep into the theory of program analysis, Patrick
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by the_benno 5y ago
No, I wouldn't say that category theory is a prerequisite for domain theory in general. I'm most familiar with domain theory from Winskel's "Formal Semantics of Programming Languages" (great book, cited as Win93 in
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by the_benno 5y ago
My "wisdom" is that microeconomics is complicated... Hardly a controversial statement. I was being serious about a microecon text, but wikipedia would work just fine too. I'm not on here to argue with people and it seems you
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by the_benno 5y ago
Sure: literally everything past the first chapter of any microeconomics textbook. Come on, your position is "it just seems obvious", so I'll just say that it _is_ obvious that economics -- a social science full of interconne
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by the_benno 5y ago
Your meaning was indeed clear but I find your reasoning flawed and the cargo-cult intellectualism... silly and pretentious. The main flaw, to me, is the 1:1 correspondence you draw between the magnitude of UBI-style benefits and cost of li
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by the_benno 5y ago
What is this gobbledygook? These technical terms have meanings that you clearly either (a) do not understand or (b) are abusing to trick less-educated folks into thinking your political opinions are authoritative and intellectual or whatev
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by the_benno 5y ago
Though it is internally-built, Hack is already open source at https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/ . FB uses a pretty wide array of languages internally -- I don't know if they release statistics publicly, but yo
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by the_benno 5y ago
This is not how unions work. (source: am union member) Your claims and arguments are against some imagined shitty union-like thing that does not much resemble an actual union.
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by the_benno 5y ago
because it's not a zero sum game? those union busting talking points keep you focused on your less-fortunate colleagues and and not the obscenely wealthy guy screwing the both of you over.
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by the_benno 5y ago
For what it's worth, here are also [1] the Framework community forum thread about Arch and [2] the Arch wiki page about Framework in case you're interested. I'm still waiting for mine to arrive (in the next batch) but I plan
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by the_benno 5y ago
Oh, thanks for the correction and apologies for the inadvertent misinfo. Your comment sent me reading the HOPL paper about SML -- I think I (based on folklore knowledge/informal conversations) conflate the original development of ML wi
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by the_benno 5y ago
F# is an ML-family language, and ML stands for meta-language -- it was designed for language tools and compilers! Andrew Appel's Modern Compiler Implementation in ML is a great resource for code examples that aren't exactly F#, b
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by the_benno 5y ago
They actually dropped support for diffing and incremental parsing a few months back, when they changed up some internal structures to what they call "precise AST datatypes" (which made diffing quite tricky in the type system). My
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by the_benno 5y ago
The short answer is that it's unsolved in general and just done ad-hoc in practice. I'm working on incremental & demand-driven analysis techniques for my PhD research and currently building essentially what you describe. The
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by the_benno 5y ago
adding some context: used most often in discussion of sports in my experience, e.g. Michael Jordan in Basketball, Wayne Gretzky in Hockey, Babe Ruth in Baseball, etc. Carries connotations not only of being one of the best to ever do it, bu
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by the_benno 5y ago
"should not be published" is very different from "are not published"
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by the_benno 5y ago
I worked on a research project in undergrad that used Reed-Solomon -- we showed a series of images to users, who would later pick those images out of a set of un-trained images in order to authenticate or access some privileged data, sans e
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by the_benno 5y ago
That incident is the same one referred to in the CACM article and elsewhere throughout this thread.
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by the_benno 5y ago
in many cases you're probably right that mandatory type annotations would improve readability. Taking the rhetorical question very literally, though, there are some times when having it two keystrokes away is very helpful. I often qu
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by the_benno 5y ago
+1 to this -- good point! It sounds like the legacy project that the parent comment mentioned probably wasn't a "good" project in this respect, though. This has a number of advantages vs. the `export` syntax used in Grain, t
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by the_benno 5y ago
I don't care so much about keywords like `fn` personally; I was referring more to: - `let` in a statement language (as opposed to let-binding expressions) - comma-separating patterns (as opposed to using pipes to mimic BNF, also poten
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by the_benno 5y ago
Most OCaml users I know use emacs with tuareg-mode and merlin (or the equivalent in vim). Once you've got that set up (and it's a breeze these days with opam user-setup) it's super easy to navigate an OCaml code base and acc
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by the_benno 5y ago
This looks like a cool and interesting project, but some of the syntax choices seem a little... all over the place to me. It seems like it's drawing quite a bit of inspiration from ML-family languages without fully internalizing _why_
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by the_benno 5y ago
Have you tried one? This just isn't true. They taste slightly different, but definitely not "less". If you do it right -- get a nice crust on there, don't overcook it, toast up some decent buns in butter and use good p
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by the_benno 5y ago
100% agree. Beyond & Impossible are alright, but there's an uncanny valley quality to them that can be kind of off-putting (to me). I've been proselytizing these black bean burgers to anyone who'll listen for a while now
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by the_benno 5y ago
Except that is explicitly a parody/critique of what Brent Yorgey called the "monad tutorial fallacy": https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti... This is the post that origi
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by the_benno 5y ago
Looking at the talks/papers from 1978 is a trip: Grace Hopper gave the keynote, and there were talks by legends like Backus, Naur, Liskov, Kurtz, and McCarthy. There are transcripts available of all of the talks as well as Q&A sess

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