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Devine Lu Linvega's 3D Lego™ Wireworld

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All running on a virtual machine which is in turn on an emulated Apple Macintosh, ... See https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/legs  and  Wireworld Automata . I hope that in here somewhere is a syntax and semantics for a DSL for succinctly describing Lego parts, ... from which the code to produce the 3D artifacts is automatically generated. Subscribe to Devine Lu Linvega . 

Seven Year Study in Santa Fé NM Proves Native Plants Drought-proof Landscapes

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... and inspires a design for reducing flooding and urban heat-island effects in car parks, ...  See this Western Planner (2022) publication: Green Stormwater Infrastructure in a Semi-arid Climate: The Influence of Rain Gardens on Soil Moisture Over Seven Years by Aaron T. Kauffman. See Brad's books  (available in Spanish translations) and other projects at https://maearth.com/planttherain/grow . Subscribe to Brad Lancaster . Speaking of leave jokes, ... Leave Curious calling for beaver-bombers . See  The rise of ‘beaver bombing’ across Europe . See https://www.leavecurious.com/welcome . Subscribe to Leave Curious .

Type Theory Forall - Intervew With Shriram Krishnamurthi

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It's really good. He grew up in Bangalore in the eighties. See Two Great Talks on Programming Languages . 23:11 He has said before, in public, that his favourite syntax is raw-parenthetical. See https://pyret.org/ . They call it a scripting language, but it's actually self-hosted. I am not aware of many script languages that facilitate the writing of their own implementation. See  lang/src/arr/compiler/desugar.arr  for an example. 1:22:22 He makes an interesting point about models and soundness proofs. See Moshe Vardi talking about LTLf .  I am still amazed that people accept these undecidability results (where consistency is modelled by soundness in a representation) as if they say something about limits of human reason. See Intensional and Extensional Semantics in Programming Languages and Type Theory. Krishnamurthi has a scribble document instead of a blog: https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/ . They did a good interview with Philip Wadler a few months ago: Compare ...

Angela Collier's Funding Application

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This is a really great idea. I think she'd do it really well, and there's a lot of related stuff she could investigate. See e.g. A Statistical Model to Explain the Mendel–Fisher Controversy by Ana M. Pires and João A. Branco. Support her on Patreon . Subscribe to Angela Collier .

FUTO Music App

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What a great commercial! See  https://music.futo.tech/  ... Subscribe to FUTO .

Jeffrey Sachs Interviewed by Glenn Diesen

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17:20 The only way humanity will be able to adapt to these ecological shocks is by freeing itself from the dependency on money.  22:45  This economic development is hamstrung by the bullshit of the IMF and the World Bank which are more concerned with maintaining the corrupt status quo than economic and human development.  Subscribe to Glenn Diesen . 

Graham Hutton, Zac Garby and Patrick Bahr - Calculating (Correct) Compilers (Effectively)

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Why didn't Computerphile do a video on this? See Patrick Bahr - Safety First: How to Safely Disregard Unsafe Behaviour in Compiler Calculations and Attila Egri-Nagy on a Concatenative Logic Programming Language . 37:53 On going from small-step to big-step: see also  David Knothe and Oliver Bringmann - Combining Big and Small-Step Semantics to Verify Loop Optimizations . Papers: Calculating Compilers Effectively (Functional Pearl)  (2024) by Zac Garby, Graham Hutton and Patrick Bahr. Calculating Dependently-Typed Compilers (Functional Pearl) (2021) by Mitchell Pickard and Graham Hutton.  Calculating Correct Compilers II: Return of the Register Machines  (2020) by Patrick Bahr and Graham Hutton.   Calculating Correct Compilers  (2015) by Graham Hutton and Patrick Bahr. I once tried to get Richard Stallman and other GNU people interested in this sort of thing . It was around the time Calculating Correct Compilers was written. See GNU Thunder .  Subscri...

Alianza por la Solidaridad Andina - Voces Silenciadas, Espacios Reducidos

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They're trying to encourage more women to get involved in politics despite the hostility some experience. Subscribe to Alianza por la Solidaridad Andina . Natalia Aparicio has been doing monthly podcasts from all over the country:  Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio .

Colleen Fazio is Selling T-shirts

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See  https://www.fazioelectric.com/merch . She also fixes amplifiers and she makes them, and she teaches other people how to make them: Subscribe to Fazio Electric . 

Intensional and Extensional Semantics in Programming Languages and Type Theory

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The subtitle of this post is "What is a proof and of what is a proof a proof?". Recently Thomas Forster wrote that he had been revising his SEP entry on NF. (There is apparently some excitement about a surprising theorem that it recently proved, something to do with failure of well-ordered choice). See Quine’s New Foundations by Thomas Forster. In the 11 page  1937 American Mathematical Monthly paper where he introduced the theory, Quine opens with: In Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica we have good evidence that all mathematics is translatable into logic. But this calls for the elucidation of three terms: translation, mathematics, and logic. The units of translation are statements; also statement forms, i.e., expressions abstracted from statements by supplanting constants by variables. Thus it is not held that every symbol or combination of symbols of mathematics, say "Δ" or "d/dx," can be equated directly to an expression of logic. Bu...