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Introduction to Pragmatic Formal Modeling

elliotswart.github.io
1 ポイント·投稿者 sn9·4 か月前·0 コメント

How to Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

fast.ai
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sn9
·8 時間前·議論
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
·8 時間前·議論
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
·8 時間前·議論
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
·8 時間前·議論
"Active recall" specifically (aka the testing effect [0]), as opposed to passive recall like rereading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect
sn9
·一昨日·議論
The thing about Scheme is that learning the syntax takes 10 minutes and then you can just focus on computation.
sn9
·16 日前·議論
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 日前·議論
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
·先月·議論
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
·先月·議論
Ask (tell!) Jose to release the manga reader!
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
Talk to your doctor about getting evaluated for sleep apnea.
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
You have to actually practice the skill of communicating while solving a problem.
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
A land value tax makes way more sense.
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
The post explicitly makes the case for the filtering playing a role. Ctrl-F "Python".
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
To disambiguate search results in the future, I've had great luck appending "lang" like so: "roadmap 2026 rust lang".
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
But the point is that taking bad pictures doesn't help.
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
How to Design Programs: https://htdp.org/2026-2-25//Book/index.html
sn9
·2 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
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.