Tag Archives: diagrams

What’s the right way to QuickCheck floating-point routines?

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Brent

I got a lot of great comments on my previous post about finding roots of polynomials in Haskell. One particularly promising idea I got from commenter Jake was to give up on the idea of having no external dependencies (which, … Continue reading →

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Finding roots of polynomials in Haskell?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Brent

tl;dr: There are several Haskell packages one can use to find an individual root of a function on a certain interval. But I’ve had less luck finding a suitable package for finding all the roots of a given polynomial. This … Continue reading →

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ICFP roundup

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Brent

ICFP 2016 in Nara, Japan was a blast. Here are a few of my recollections. The Place Although I was a coathor on an ICFP paper in 2011, when it was in Tokyo, I did not go since my son … Continue reading →

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ICFP roundup

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Brent

Well, ICFP 2015 in Vancouver is already two months in the past… I’ve been meaning for a while to write a post reflecting on the experience. Better late than never! The Place I had never been to Vancouver before; it … Continue reading →

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Blogging again, & some major life events

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Brent

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here; the blog was on hold while I was finishing my PhD and on the academic job market. Now that things have settled down a bit I plan to get back … Continue reading →

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In defense of drawing by coding

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Brent

Just some half-baked thoughts in repsonse to Bret Victor’s talk, Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (along with his addendum here). As usual, it is a fun and inspiring talk, so if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it; but I will … Continue reading →

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Introducing diagrams-haddock

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Brent

I am quite pleased to announce the release of diagrams-haddock, a tool enabling you to easily include programmatically generated diagrams in your Haddock documentation. Why might you want to do this? “A picture is worth a thousand words”—in many instances … Continue reading →

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Diagrams 0.6

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brent

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.6 of diagrams, a full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing. Check out the gallery for examples of what it can do! Highlights of this release include: Diagrams now … Continue reading →

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Creating documents with embedded diagrams

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Brent

If you read my recent post about type algebra, you may have wondered how I got all those nice images in there. Surely creating the images and then inserting them into the post by hand would be rather tedious! Indeed, … Continue reading →

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Diagrams mentoring at Hac Phi

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Brent

Hac Phi is coming up in less than a month, August 3-5 here in Philadelphia: three days of hanging out with awesome people, eating good food, and hacking on Haskell projects. Judging by past instances, I promise you it will … Continue reading →

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