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edwardkmett

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About edwardkmett

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    Comment #27495720

    "Use our bouncer or else." Sounds like a very democratic, open source, do what you will solution to me.

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    Comment #27290805

    This has been the major reason why #haskell didn't try to move more forcefully. We'd like to get some of the old logging bots moved over, etc. We have some number of users who conn…

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    Comment #10400767

    (Sorry, Lindsey, not Lindsay.)

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    Comment #10397134

    Without the propagators themselves being monotone they don't have enough to ensure determinism. They also don't have a guarantee of termination. e.g. repeatedly taking Heron steps …

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    Comment #10392165

    Indeed. Our old discussions about "omega-continuous semiring homomorphisms" as the way to try to make something half-way between Dyna and the datalog bits I was working on have bee…

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    Comment #10390477

    Talk about timely, I recently took the opportunity to unmothball the old propagators idea and have been running a bunch of ideas past Sussman's former student Alexey Radul on a fai…

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    Comment #8121863

    On the other hand, here's a problem. Extend your numeric type tower to handle whatever new numeric types I come up with in an internally consistent manner. In haskell I have number…

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    Comment #7991398

    Nah, it is a type of numeric ID's for different types of things. The parameter 'a' is just a phantom type parameter to keep you from mixing up a mesh ID with a texture ID.

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    Comment #6202805

    import Control.Lens and let us use two components from lens: rewriteOf :: Setter' a a -> (a -> Maybe a) -> a -> a which can take a rewrite rule and apply it to any 'self-similar' s…