Posted on November , Tags: Agda New paper: Algebraic Effects Meet Hoare Logic in Cubical Agda, by myself, Zhixuan Yang, and Nicolas Wu, will be published at POPL . Zhixuan has a nice summary of it here. The preprint is available here.

   ghc debug is a debugging tool for performing precise heap analysis of Haskell programs check out our previous post introducing it . While working on Eras Profiling, we took the opportunity to make some much needed improvements and quality of life fixes to both the ghc debug library and the ghc...

   The principle of explosion is that in an inconsistent system everything is provable: if you prove both and not for any , you can then conclude for any : P land lnot P to Q. This is, to put it briefly, not intuitive. But it is awfully hard to get rid of because it appears to follow...

   I’ve just learned that Oddbins, a British chain of discount wine and liquor stores, went out of business last year. I was in an Oddbins exactly once, but I feel warmly toward them and I was sorry to hear of their passing. In February of I went into the Oddbins on Canary Wharf and asked for...

   I’ve recently needed to explain to nontechnical people, such as my chiropractor, why the recent AIâ hype is mostly hype and not actual intelligence. I think I’ve found the magic phrase that communicates the most understanding in the fewest words: talking dog. These systems are like a talking...