Lispy Gopher Show with screwtape, Ramin Honary, and me (Sacha Chua)

2025-02-05

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Not-entirely-sorted topics:

• DeepSeek
• energy
• climate
• lower consumption
• Kent, Emacs variants
• Gypsum
• Scheme
• Yale
• Haskell
• Ramin Honary
• drawing notes during conversation
  • memory
• mastodon
• monads
• Lambdas + procedures
• Haskell
• also other things aside from chained side effects
  • 0:30 T, Jonathan Rees
• Community
  • frustrating communication
    • diversity of perspectives
  • brainstorm
  • Disconnects?
  • 0:48 silos?-porting.
  • crossovers, listening to others
  • Medium?
    • 0:33 ghost stories?
      • punchlines
    • history
      • 0:40 Python, CMUCL, history
      • ooh, community stories
  • Substack?
  • Bumping into things, serendipity
  • network
  • AI?
  • flow of info
• recursion
• 0:41 Haskell
• 0:35 Dijkstra anecdotes
• people are very opinionated
• 0:43 CL - Haskell, typechecking
• 0:47 Lambda calculi
• Kenichi Sasagawa
  • life trajectory: accounting, SICP
    • intuition
  • IS Lisp, Prolog
    • islisp.info
• 0:44 The Curse of Lisp
  • solo coders vs. cooperating
  • I can do it myself
• intuition

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