A Fireball of AlphaAug 21, 2026 - 20:09I talk about my efforts to formalize lambda-calculus with named variables and explicit alpha-equivalence,...View more
Solving Quadratic Word EquationsAug 11, 2026 - 22:45A system of word equations is called quadratic if no variable occurs more than twice in it. There is an i...View more
A little bit about word equationsAug 3, 2026 - 17:14The problem of word equations is a rather storied one, including frustrated connections to Hilbert's Tent...View more
A Strange DealApr 30, 2026 - 2:57The Curry-Howard isomorphism for the law of excluded middle, as a radio drama. I first saw a version of t...View more
Great paper: The Calculated TyperApr 20, 2026 - 23:41I discuss a nice paper I quite enjoyed reading, called The Calculated Typer , by Garby, Bahr, and Hutton....View more
Double-negation translations and CPS conversion, part 2Apr 2, 2026 - 13:31In this episode, I talk about the control operator callcc, and how it is implemented during compilation u...View more
Double-negation translations and CPS conversion, part 1Mar 31, 2026 - 13:48In this episode, I talk about a somewhat more advanced case of the Curry-Howard isomorphism (the connecti...View more