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Introduction to Pragmatic Formal Modeling

elliotswart.github.io
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How to Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

fast.ai
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sn9
·11 घंटे पहले·discuss
OCaml is such an obvious solution to their problem that I'm shocked it wasn't even mentioned. You get fast compile times without sacrificing type safety.
sn9
·11 घंटे पहले·discuss
You can take advantage of spaced repetition just for scheduling the review of proofs and problems you've solved before.

By review, I mean attempting to solve them like you're seeing the problem statement for the first time.
sn9
·12 घंटे पहले·discuss
You were actually using spaced repetition implicitly whereas they were using flashcards to cram.

The issue wasn't the flashcards but their own failure to use them effectively.
sn9
·12 घंटे पहले·discuss
"Active recall" specifically (aka the testing effect [0]), as opposed to passive recall like rereading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect
sn9
·परसों·discuss
The thing about Scheme is that learning the syntax takes 10 minutes and then you can just focus on computation.
sn9
·17 दिन पहले·discuss
To the extent that you use AI at all, it should be to accelerate your own understanding in ways that are independently verifiable/falsifiable.

AI amplifies what you are.

If you take shortcuts in your education, you will remain mediocre.

If you dive deep in your understanding, building a broad and deep foundation, then you will be exponentially more powerful.
sn9
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
Most UIs in practice boil down to state machines which are extremely amenable to formal verification.

Hillel Wayne's writing is a good starting place to learn more: https://www.hillelwayne.com/formally-specifying-uis/
sn9
·पिछला माह·discuss
Types replace entire classes of tests that coverage metrics wouldn't detect [0].

Types are also documentation!

They also decrease the degrees of freedom LLMs have to make mistakes [1].

[0] https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/tests-vs-types/

[1] https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html
sn9
·पिछला माह·discuss
Ask (tell!) Jose to release the manga reader!
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Talk to your doctor about getting evaluated for sleep apnea.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
You have to actually practice the skill of communicating while solving a problem.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
A land value tax makes way more sense.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Have you considered incorporating formal modelling?

Like:

[0] https://csci1710.github.io/2026/ and https://forge-fm.github.io/book/2026/

[1] https://elliotswart.github.io/pragmaticformalmodeling/

[2] https://quint.sh/
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Everyone should Jimmy Koppel's post on what abstractions are and aren't: https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/03/abstraction-not-what-y...

Anyone claiming LLMs are an a higher level of abstraction are not using it in the way used by programmers and computer scientists.

They're usually conflating "delegation" and "abstraction", as if a junior developer is an abstraction.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
The post explicitly makes the case for the filtering playing a role. Ctrl-F "Python".
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
To disambiguate search results in the future, I've had great luck appending "lang" like so: "roadmap 2026 rust lang".
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
But the point is that taking bad pictures doesn't help.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
How to Design Programs: https://htdp.org/2026-2-25//Book/index.html
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I don't have a dog and it would be very weird to get a dog for the sole purpose of having one for dating profile pics to meet women.
sn9
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I don't have a dog and it would be very weird to get a dog for the sole purpose of having one for dating profile pics to meet women.