Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) is an awesome new technology for imaging brain activity. Its spatial resolution can be even better than fMRI. The hardware to run ultrasound can be made compact and cheap. Could we possibly use it to make … Read more
A lot of people think that functional programming is mostly about avoiding mutation at all costs.Even though persistent data structures are great and there is definitely some truth to it, this view just doesn’t really hold up in reality. Many … Read more
June 9, 2024 | 20 min. read If you’ve ever seen a discussion of functional programming languages on the Internet, you’ll have probably noticed one talking point in particular that comes up frequently. For the sake of generalization, let’s make … Read more
Abstract:Ownership and borrowing systems, designed to enforce safe memory management without the need for garbage collection, have been brought to the fore by the Rust programming language. Rust also aims to bring some guarantees offered by functional programming into the … Read more
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It has been shown multiple times that TypeScript’s Type System is Turing Complete. In this blog post, we will explore some basic concepts for writing general-purpose functional programs entirely at the type-level. Function Definition and Application The most basic components … Read more
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Let’s start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we are given groups of numbers as a string that look like: 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000 We want to write a program … Read more
This is a sample chapter from my upcoming book: “A skeptic’s guide to functional programming with JavaScript.” Be sure to subscribe if you’d like to know when it’s available. It’s due for release soon. And there will be a discount … Read more
You’d expectthe longest and most costly phase in the lifecycle of a software product to be the initial development of the system, when all those great features are first imagined and then created. In fact, the hardest part comes later, … Read more