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I think mlton is the one to reach for if you want strict conformance to the SML'97 definition [1]. There's a page on the MLton site that describes where SMLNJ deviates from SML'97 …

For those interested in the Standard ML compilers, Mlton is another one worth checking out. Standard ML of New Jersey (smlnj) is another interesting one although it tends to be mor…

I am eager for a lean equivalent of flocq in rocq. When I did some lean verification of numerical algorithms I did the same thing with rationals or the reals from mathlib. The big …

I use it a few times a week for about that long, almost exclusively as a virtual display for my MacBook. I bought it mostly because I travel for work, and when I'm stuck in a hotel…

NSF is one of the primary agencies supporting research in the US. It’s not a “foundation” in the sense of charitable foundations if that’s what’s confusing you about their name. Th…

Not really surprising. I would guess this goes beyond just the AI and jobs issue. Your average person sees AI all over the place in contexts they didn’t ask for it but can’t escape…

As others pointed out, the explosion of interest started with the deep convolutional networks that were applied in image problems. What I always thought was interesting was that pr…

Yup. The rumor mill was talking about a CEO change for a while, and around the time you saw the rumors building you saw the departures you mentioned. Ternus was being mentioned as …

I’ve had similar experiences with code I’ve proven correct, although my issues were of the more common variety than the overflow issue - subtle spec bugs. (I think the post mention…

In my experience over the last couple years, lists like this won’t move the needle at all. The AI zealots reject anything that calls into question the AI stuff, usually appealing t…

Effective April 20? Sometimes these days it’s hard to distinguish reality from The Onion.

Interesting how not many comments talk about the game itself and how Epic may have driven their own players away with changes that players dislike. I’ve played for most of the life…

I work in a subfield of CS that requires those fundamentals pretty regularly, and I also make regular use of AI tools. You definitely need those fundamentals because AI tools can’t…

They define this: “The influencers presented their claims as exposés of industry deceit, despite offering no verifiable evidence to support them.” So, misinformation = make claim w…

> Absolutely not. Reading a language is crucial. I don't think the post implied that this package writing activity was a write-only activity where reading and learning is strictly …

Not really a new term: “warfighter” always has made me cringe but it’s been commonplace in defense contractor pitches to DoD for many years. Basically, if you hear it being used yo…

I noticed the same thing, having also written an interpreter for the Wolfram language that focused on the core rule/rewriting/pattern language. At its heart it’s more or less a Lis…

The em-dash metric is silly. Some people (including me) have always used them and plan to continue to do so. I just pulled up some random articles by Wolfram from the before-LLM da…

Yes. This is one of the things that drives me nuts about a lot of titles on here: the context like “for the web” changes how it’s is interpreted a great deal. I see the same thing …

This seems like a business opportunity. “Ethically sourced organic mud speaker wires for a clean, organic, pure sound.” /s

The footnote on their sentence about assembly programmers: “I mean, I dunno. I'm not a historian. This is a vibes-level historical reconstruction. I would be curious if this is way…