Monthly Archives: October 2012

Decomposing data structures

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Brent

So, what are combinatorial species? As a very weak first approximation, you can think of them as a generalization of algebraic data types.1 That doesn’t really say much about what they are, but at least it does explain why programmers … Continue reading →

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And now, back to your regularly scheduled combinatorial species

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Brent

I’ve already mentioned this to people here and there, but haven’t yet announced it publically, so here it is: Stephanie Weirich and I have been awarded a grant from the NSF to study the intersection of combinatorial species and (functional) … Continue reading →

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FogBugz, Beeminder, and… pure functions in the cloud?

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Brent

For a number of years now, I’ve used a free personal instance of FogBugz to track everything I have to do. At any given time I have somewhere between 50-150 open tickets representing things on my to-do list, and over … Continue reading →

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