Vanessa McHale's blog (13)
  • The Interesting Part of Monadic Effects

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    Monads for effects are familiar to the Haskell programmer; they were introduced by Wadler's "Monads for functional programming" and are the accepted way to work with side effects in a lazy language.

  • Compiler Technologies behind Logics

    by Vanessa McHale | Computer Science

    As I wrote elsewhere, garbage collection—manual memory management correspond to intuitionistic logic—linear logic. So garbage collection is a technology with logical implications.

  • Shoelace Iteration

    by Vanessa McHale | J

    Suppose we wish to compute successive differences. In J:

  • Adequate J Matrix Performance

    by Vanessa McHale | J

    I adapted the xor example here from Python; they used NumPy.

  • Dimension Is a Functor

    by Vanessa McHale | Programming

    Dimension is a functor. This is true for points in space as well as arrays (more concretely).

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