Andre Videla

Researching types, correctness, and purpose. I sleep a lot

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2025-05-30 16:48:38

"Modern programming" actually refers to programming from the 1800 to late 1900s. For programming that relates to today's world please use "Contemporary programming" or "post-modern programming"

2025-04-23 07:54:50

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@nprofile…6kk0 https://www.ruby-hotels.com/en/destinations/london/ruby-lucy
it's got a very characteristic artsy/indie ambiance which feels a bit fake given it's a big international corporation, but that's miles better than “the wallpaper is frailing off and the shower smells like mould" of the travelodge and premier inn around the corner

2025-04-23 07:48:41

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@nprofile…6kk0 I found the one single hotel in London that isn't like that and now I'm booking there every single time. It's mindblowing how difficult it is to find a decent place to stay

2025-03-21 12:24:53

I can’t imagine the job of composing for a JRPG:
you pour your sweat and tears into a masterpiece about killing god
You find out there are 10 more god-killing tracks to make
After gruelling work trying to come up with equality intense track you learn there is one more about killing the god that rules the gods
The scriptwriter wants the leitmotif of each lesser god to appear in the final piece in the order they were killed.
The Gameplay director wants to sync up player actions to the track each time a powerup is used
The real gods are the composers

2025-03-13 15:15:38

Pretty good summary of what's wrong with many things
https://pool.jortage.com/typespl/media_attachments/files/114/155/777/803/450/868/original/c9bf948c46c7ddeb.jpeg

2025-03-03 13:25:04

So you're a computer scientist? Name every program then

2025-03-01 13:05:02

I do not enjoy participating in corporate DEI discussions. I personally feel like I achieve more by helping, encouraging and supporting my women friends, than allow a company (or university) to tick a checkbox and give them credit for having done the bare minimum (hint: they haven't)

2025-02-26 17:46:44

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@nprofile…e5g0 My impression is that the economical system, while not great, isn't wholly responsible for the events unfolding right now. In particular, today's america and the USSR share one commonality: the single party system. America's 2-party system seems to have slowly but surely degenerated into a single-party system with some opposition. I wrote a bit here
https://types.pl/@Andrev/113951867581901287
I wonder what you think of this

2025-02-18 17:37:57

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…3cjl
So…you wouldn't do it?

2025-02-18 17:18:51

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…3cjl Your frame of reference is not the same as mine. You're talking about why individuals cannot switch and the political forces pushed on them. When I make those statements, I think of the political forces and the social structures that create a world where civilized (as opposed to entirely virgin) areas have to use gas.
Assuming cooking with gas is half as efficient as electric of induction (pretty sure that’s not too far from the truth), and let's say a population is using 1MW of power only for cooking with gas (converted from BTU etc), flatly replacing all those appliances by electric ones and keeping the gas for electricity generation would yield you another 1MW of power to use for anything else.
If you could half the cost of energy usage for cooking country-wide, as a politician, wouldn't you do it?
Clearly the people of your country have decided to make such efficiencies illegal, the question now is "why”, "how did we let this happen” and "how can we prevent this in the future”

2025-02-18 12:17:15

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@nprofile…6kk0 Just like we should undeploy cars at a national scale! I agree we should do cars (and industry) first, but I can't see the argument for letting gas go on much longer. Again, I suspect that it's a cultural issue. Clearly removing gas from my culture is a no-op, and I'm guessing it's more complicated for the population you have in mind

2025-02-18 12:14:57

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@nprofile…6kk0 I see what you're saying but in my mind, cooking with gas is a technological downgrade, unlike books, which are a technological upgrade. I think that's the cultural mismatch. None of my traditional dishes ever needed gas, only fondue, and we would use a small alcohol based appliance for it
We shouldn't downgrade our technology for the few, we should upgrade it for the most. Which is what libraries do, and what induction does.

2025-02-18 12:14:57

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2025-02-18 12:11:37

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@nprofile…6kk0 Oh that's not my point of view at all! It's merely a counter argument to "everything gas". Gas only makes sense in a limited range, a range that it not reached by many, let alone the vast majority of the population, specially in the UK. I don't think this is a matter of education or competence either.
I've grown up where people are generally competent and educated and all our food has always been cooked on electric, whether resistive, or induction, including our traditional dishes.
Other dishes that required gas made use of special tools fit for purpose (pizza, fondue, stir-frys), and despite all our applicances being electric we would use gas where necessary. Having experienced this lifestyle, I cannot imagine that the trade-off (non-renewable, safety, expensive infrastructure) of deploying gas at a national scale is worth the benefit of the few who need gas on a daily basis.
In that sense, I could say that a society catering to the 1% at the cost of everyone else is just as hellish

2025-02-18 11:50:49

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@nprofile…6kk0 I think you grossly overestimate the proportion of people in the population:
who cook
who can even cook competently
who are even interested in cooking
This is without questioning what "traditional" cooking even is. I suspect that's merely a cultural mismatch

2025-02-18 11:06:40

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@nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…3cjl to be fair, lots of major cities in Europe (Paris, Tallin, Utrecht, all of Switzerland) are miles ahead on this.
Gas stoves are also just a worse technology to deploy for most people. And you could always get it back by buying a container, like people in those places do for barbecue, woks, and pizza ovens

2025-02-10 18:13:59

So the lastest Idris2 feature I'm working on helps with customizing binders syntax. And I've been hacking it using function-space. But I just learned about fun-split and now I really want to update my approach to do it properly with a meta-level operation that explicitly manipulates the context. Ideally it would mean that the syntax for pi-types (x : a) -> b x would be implementable as a library definition.
Any idea where to start and read about fun split and it's implementation as a part of typechecking?

2025-02-08 09:48:47

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@nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…nalw maybe looking at this would help make an informed decision? https://github.com/polarity-lang/polarity
@nprofile…whhy has also been working on an implementation using Rust so he might be able to provide more insight

2025-02-07 19:15:40

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@nprofile…6kk0 rust????? I have no clue, just throwing out a guess based on the two compilers I've seen recently written in rust

2025-01-14 18:02:44

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@nprofile…e5g0 Actually I'm not even sure it's the right tool for the job!
Pipelines are uni-directional so you'd lose the backward part
The types involved in neural network layers are not very informative so I think you'll end up with a pipeline [Matrix, Matrix, Matrix …]
You could implement a pipeline of bidirectional transformations in the category of lenses, but abstracting over categories is the topic of the next blog post :)

2024-11-14 08:29:25

Between the new scanners and the super helpful and patient security agents, Edinburgh airport climbed a lot of ranks today

2024-10-12 05:20:36

I dreamt that the coffee machine had a "monad" and a "comonad" setting

2024-06-20 11:13:20

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@npub1aw2…8vv5 It just hit me that the dream link is having in awakening might be what happening to him after being swallowed up in echoes of wisdom

2024-04-06 13:16:00

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@npub1aa3…zykt Fantastic! i'll give it a go, I've used iSH a long time ago but it was quite limited at the time. I'm curious to see how this one differs

2024-04-06 12:40:18

Apps I wished existed on iPadOS:
A native terminal emulator
A sound mixer
Karabiner
An alternative window manager that is not stage manager
Xcode
VSCode
Raycast

2024-02-12 16:40:56

More London bike lanes
https://pool.jortage.com/typespl/media_attachments/files/111/919/500/539/779/004/original/bfbe5625f3279224.jpeg