Andre Videla

Researching types, correctness, and purpose. I sleep a lot

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2026-04-04 14:59:28 GMT

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At least the HSR problems between france, spain and italy are caused by hubris and pride, not by boredom and neglect like in the UK

2026-04-04 14:58:29 GMT

I see people talking about trains and that makes me happy. We should definitely talk about about ways they fail and ways they could be made better.
But in my experience, the biggest blocker is the fact that the people at the top, even when it benefits them, are not interested in improving railway services.
Get Glasgow moving is not interested in improving railway services.
SPT is not interested in improving railway services
Scotrails is not interested in improving railway services.
Network rail is not interested in improving railway services.
it wouldn't surprise me that great western railway & others are equally desiniterested in improving railway services.
Honestly the only one i've observed in the UK make good choices that are consistent with improving railways services is TFL.
I honestly don't know what to do about this because whenever I myself confronted those people about their lethargic response to urgent problems they only answer with disdain, wielding their ignorance like a rotten shield.

2025-12-31 01:39:18 GMT

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@nprofile…4x5t isn't that already the case? How does that mean that math is on the chopping block? Chopped from what?

2025-12-30 21:01:28 GMT

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@nprofile…4x5t I watched the games live when Alpha Go was playing against Lee Sedol, I watched when AlphaStar was playing LiquidTLO. Neither of those achievements have changed anything in my relationship with the game of Go or Starcraft, why would it? I play for my own enjoyment, and I would bet most people who play those games are equally disinterested in the achievements of AI in those domains. Why would math be any different?

2025-12-30 19:01:16 GMT

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@nprofile…4x5t mathematics is a social process, one driven by what humans find interesting to share with other humans. Mathematicians who aren't able to participate in this circle are "crackpots" until enough members of the community can understand and translate their knowledge into digestible bits.
In what sense is math "on the chopping block"? The example given, chess, does not demonstrate that AI superiority equates the chopping block

2025-10-26 00:29:35 GMT

Someone should make a rythm game where you play as a king dodging guillotines by pressing buttons on the floor with your feet and call it...
France France Revolution

2025-10-05 04:33:00 GMT

So, given that Apple has kept cooperating with totalitarian regimes, I'm going to try moving away from their online services.
I can replace iCloud backups with manual backups on a nas + tailscale which is the most important feature I use on a regular basis.
Any suggestions to migrate from apple photos to a self-hosted solution? Any recommendations for a music player (for either Android or iOS) that you can point to a library on a nas?

2025-06-16 15:33:14 GMT

"I'm not a marxist, but..."
Wasn't on my bingo card of things I'd say during a company meeting

2025-05-30 16:48:38 GMT

"Modern programming" actually refers to programming from the 1800 to late 1900s. For programming that relates to today's world please use "Contemporary programming" or "post-modern programming"

2025-05-22 15:46:42 GMT

Part of the deal when working with NodeJS is to adopt the local dialect of -ify and .io everything
https://pool.jortage.com/typespl/media_attachments/files/114/552/257/613/424/473/original/300b583af50ef0ee.png

2025-04-30 10:27:54 GMT

Neoliberalism has been successful in replacing our notion of "efficiency" from "maximizing the output/resource ratio" to "minimizing resources".
Like we see in America today, "improving efficiency" is about making resource cuts, not about improving the output/resource ratio
https://types.pl/@bentnib/114426232247678899

2025-04-23 07:54:50 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 https://www.ruby-hotels.com/en/destinations/london/ruby-lucy
it's got a very characteristic artsy/indie ambiance which feels a bit fake given it's a big international corporation, but that's miles better than “the wallpaper is frailing off and the shower smells like mould" of the travelodge and premier inn around the corner

2025-04-23 07:48:41 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 I found the one single hotel in London that isn't like that and now I'm booking there every single time. It's mindblowing how difficult it is to find a decent place to stay

2025-03-21 12:24:53 GMT

I can’t imagine the job of composing for a JRPG:
you pour your sweat and tears into a masterpiece about killing god
You find out there are 10 more god-killing tracks to make
After gruelling work trying to come up with equality intense track you learn there is one more about killing the god that rules the gods
The scriptwriter wants the leitmotif of each lesser god to appear in the final piece in the order they were killed.
The Gameplay director wants to sync up player actions to the track each time a powerup is used
The real gods are the composers

2025-03-13 15:15:38 GMT

Pretty good summary of what's wrong with many things
https://pool.jortage.com/typespl/media_attachments/files/114/155/777/803/450/868/original/c9bf948c46c7ddeb.jpeg

2025-03-03 13:25:04 GMT

So you're a computer scientist? Name every program then

2025-03-01 13:05:02 GMT

I do not enjoy participating in corporate DEI discussions. I personally feel like I achieve more by helping, encouraging and supporting my women friends, than allow a company (or university) to tick a checkbox and give them credit for having done the bare minimum (hint: they haven't)

2025-02-18 17:37:57 GMT

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…3cjl
So…you wouldn't do it?

2025-02-18 12:11:37 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 Oh that's not my point of view at all! It's merely a counter argument to "everything gas". Gas only makes sense in a limited range, a range that it not reached by many, let alone the vast majority of the population, specially in the UK. I don't think this is a matter of education or competence either.
I've grown up where people are generally competent and educated and all our food has always been cooked on electric, whether resistive, or induction, including our traditional dishes.
Other dishes that required gas made use of special tools fit for purpose (pizza, fondue, stir-frys), and despite all our applicances being electric we would use gas where necessary. Having experienced this lifestyle, I cannot imagine that the trade-off (non-renewable, safety, expensive infrastructure) of deploying gas at a national scale is worth the benefit of the few who need gas on a daily basis.
In that sense, I could say that a society catering to the 1% at the cost of everyone else is just as hellish

2025-02-18 11:06:40 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…3cjl to be fair, lots of major cities in Europe (Paris, Tallin, Utrecht, all of Switzerland) are miles ahead on this.
Gas stoves are also just a worse technology to deploy for most people. And you could always get it back by buying a container, like people in those places do for barbecue, woks, and pizza ovens

2025-02-10 18:13:59 GMT

So the lastest Idris2 feature I'm working on helps with customizing binders syntax. And I've been hacking it using function-space. But I just learned about fun-split and now I really want to update my approach to do it properly with a meta-level operation that explicitly manipulates the context. Ideally it would mean that the syntax for pi-types (x : a) -> b x would be implementable as a library definition.
Any idea where to start and read about fun split and it's implementation as a part of typechecking?

2025-02-08 09:48:47 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…nalw maybe looking at this would help make an informed decision? https://github.com/polarity-lang/polarity
@nprofile…whhy has also been working on an implementation using Rust so he might be able to provide more insight

2025-02-07 19:15:40 GMT

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@nprofile…6kk0 rust????? I have no clue, just throwing out a guess based on the two compilers I've seen recently written in rust

2025-01-14 18:02:44 GMT

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@nprofile…e5g0 Actually I'm not even sure it's the right tool for the job!
Pipelines are uni-directional so you'd lose the backward part
The types involved in neural network layers are not very informative so I think you'll end up with a pipeline [Matrix, Matrix, Matrix …]
You could implement a pipeline of bidirectional transformations in the category of lenses, but abstracting over categories is the topic of the next blog post :)

2025-01-14 12:52:32 GMT

My latest was cross posted on the cybercat blog as well, please take a look https://cybercat.institute/2025/01/13/program-pipelines.idr/
I think the coolest part about this work is that we’re using it right now for internal infrastructure and it's very nice to use.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@JadeMasterMath/113826685458110073

2024-11-14 08:29:25 GMT

Between the new scanners and the super helpful and patient security agents, Edinburgh airport climbed a lot of ranks today

2024-06-20 11:13:20 GMT

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@npub1aw2…8vv5 It just hit me that the dream link is having in awakening might be what happening to him after being swallowed up in echoes of wisdom

2024-04-06 13:16:00 GMT

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@npub1aa3…zykt Fantastic! i'll give it a go, I've used iSH a long time ago but it was quite limited at the time. I'm curious to see how this one differs