i will be streaming live on twitch with my friend jake at 3pm UTC today (2.5 hrs from now)!
we'll cover the basics of dependent types: we'll try to understand what they're all about, what you can express with them, and how they work in Lean
hope to see you there (link 👇)
"Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
(a) This is pretty good evidence of intelligence by William James definition.
(b) Time to start taking every kind of constraints on these things more seriously. Permissions, formal methods and types become much more important.
Over 50 years from the Telegraph to information theory is interesting.
Maybe: generalization of a mechanism/construct -> phenomena/practices decohering from constitutive knowledge -> demand for new theory -> theory simplifies & reconstitutes mechanism ecology