jonsterling

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by jonsterling 11y ago
Oh, interesting... I just looked for it, and I found that there are patched versions of iTerm that are borderless; is there actually a way to configure standard iTerm in this way? that'd be great.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Does anyone know what that borderless terminal is?
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by jonsterling 11y ago
I do pure type theory, semantics, proof theory & intuitionistic mathematics. Very little of this will find a home in industry (at least, not for several decades). Industry has historically been incredibly resistant to 100% of the things
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Who gives a damn if academic research is relevant to industry? Almost anything that could possibly be relevant to industry is highly uninteresting. Imagine being someone who thinks that Capital could decide what is a good problem to work on
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Having enough money that you can value time over it is associated with greater happiness.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
it's nice for the haskell folks that they'll be getting some sort of dependent types, but suffice it to say that they will be of a very different sort than the Idris ones. Not to mention, there is hope of giving a semantics to Idr
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by jonsterling 11y ago
It's a matter of behavioral type theory vs structural type theory; each can benefit from "slapping a solver on", but behavioral type theory allows you to reason directly about the code from a partial and effectful language, w
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by jonsterling 11y ago
One option is to treat the solver as a trusted "black box" rule if the user wants to—so theoretically, you could get all the benefits of something like Liquid Haskell simultaneously with the unbounded expressivity of full Nuprl.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Nuprl is absolutely still actively developed, in fact; I am constantly in touch with the PRL group. But the code-base is very crufty. In the past two years, though, numerous features have been added (including nominal abstraction, exception
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by jonsterling 11y ago
There's a perspective that unifies both the Liquid Haskell-style approach and dependent types, which is "behavioral type theory". Nuprl (the longest-lived implementation of dependent type theory, starting in the early 80s and
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Springer books are great—but academic publishers are widely reviled.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
It is no wonder that Chomsky didn't treat him as an equal, given that Sam Harris is really in no position to discuss anything with him...
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Well put.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Presumably working on their syntax and semantics. PL is a pretty broad field that encompasses proof theory, formal logic, language design, compiler design, etc.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Just make sure your phone is charged, since you'll look like a real douche if there's an emergency and you need to call police/ambulance with your dead phone that you've just been talking on...
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Ugh, Old Persian? Lame They should pay me the big bucks to translate tweets into Akkadian or Sumerian.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Screw that guy; love that the "disgruntled" workers took action.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
I don't know, that sounds pretty out of touch. Pretty much no spam ever is something someone's going to be tempted by. People can get fooled by spam, but if they know enough about how to eliminate all sources of advertising from
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by jonsterling 11y ago
What does advertising and phone spam have to do with anything?
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Yes, I know it! This is beside my point, but it is of course definitely true.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Every implementation in Okasaki is easier than an analogous imperative/ephemeral one. Every single one.
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by jonsterling 11y ago
somebody had to say it
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by jonsterling 11y ago
type theory has broad applicability, since it serves as the basis for all modern programming languages design and research. another nice example is kripke logical relations, which can be used to give a model for a programming language in wh
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by jonsterling 11y ago
What a lovely post! Still true. Another great post that he links to is Persistence of Memory ( https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/persistence... ) where he talks about persistent and ephemeral dat
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by jonsterling 11y ago
There are a number of good points here, but I am surprised by the fact that John wants a global coherence check, since in our conversations he has always insisted on the primacy of local reasoning .
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Just FYI, "Beluga" also refers to a proof assistant based on the logical framework with contextual modal type theory: http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/beluga/
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Yeah! We did really well; your mileage may vary, but at the time I was there, you could definitely get a 2-3 bedroom apartment within 1.5mi of campus for less than 2000. I was in Elmwood (a nice little area right on the border of Oakland).
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Verificationism is still alive and well, but perhaps not as a basis for empirical science... Following Gentzen, Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf, verificationism serves as the backbone to modern intuitionistic and constructive meaning theory
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by jonsterling 11y ago
Room and board for a year at UC Berkeley is $14,388. That's for nine months (June, July & August you have to vacate, IIRC). So, that's about $1,600 per month. On the other hand, I lived in a fairly spacious apartment with one
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by jonsterling 11y ago
At many colleges, it is way cheaper to stay in an big apartment than in a cramped dorm. At Berkeley, I saved thousands and thousands of dollars by living off campus in a pretty big apartment with a "flatmate" but not a "roomm

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