The Humane Representation of Thought, a talk by Brett Victor:
https://vimeo.com/115154289
I've not seen Brett talk before, and he raises interesting points about the influence of the medium on our analytical thoughts.
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I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image.
I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.
Noodling with an interpreter for a statically typed language with reified types (e.g. a list knows what type it contains).
Currently I have a single representation of types in both the runtime and the type checker. I think that's a good thing?
Effects and code as a database in Unison: https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/
Unison is looking at changing their program representation to plain sqlite!





