We're live this Friday with the first episode looking at functional programming, and so I thought I'd put together a collection of the material I've created over the years on the topic, in the form of presentations, documents and blog posts, in case you want to dive in before the first episode. Share & enjoy!
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2025/03/24/functional-programming-resources/
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Web developer with 20+ years experience.
#JavaScript / #TypeScript 15 years, #React 10 years.
Love #Linux and #functional programming, dabble in maker stuff.
Would be happiest to work on #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource or with an NGO.
#Vilnius, #Lithuania, Europe. Hybrid or remote.
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Psilocybin as a treatment for repetitive mild head injury: Evidence from neuroradiology and molecular biology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636248v1 "#psilocybin can reduce vasogenic edema, restore normal vascular reactivity and #functional #connectivity"; #neuroplasticity, #brain #plasticity, #neuroscience
«Funktionale Sprachelemente: Iteratoren und Funktionsabschlüsse (closures)»
Heute nehme ich mir die Zeit um mich mit 'Funktionale Programmierung' in Rust auseinander zu setzen. Ich hatte mich darüber schon informiert aber mich nie damit auseinander gesetzt. Plump gesagt, es ist "moderner" als objektorientiertes Programmieren und Rust unterstützt es.
https://rust-lang-de.github.io/rustbook-de/ch13-00-functional-features.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funktionale_Programmierung
Dear all,
I am looking for a #PhD student to work on (any subset of) these topics:
#semantics, #domaintheory, #categorytheory #typetheory and #functional programming.
Deadline for application is 15th of February 2025.
Please get in touch if interested, here's the official call: https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FN15COMPGR01
This game is a weird historical curiosity. Interactive fiction game where a genie teaches you #lisp
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t
I think @zarfeblong coded a Lisp interpreter in z machine. for this.
It is traditional for #functional #programming languages (especially those used in academic research) to target 𝜆-calculus, then have a graph reduction VM (G-machine, eg), to interpret that generated "functional assembly".
It would be interesting to switch things up a bit: instead of interpreting the generated 𝜆-calculus, translate that intermediate code into #Forth and have the Forth compiler generate byte code for a stack VM (Smalltalk VM, JVM, WASM, etc.), which can JIT compiles the byte code, if necessary.
In many ways, 𝜆-calculus and Forth are like dizygotic twins separated at birth:
• Both languages are as low-level as languages can get without devolving into machine instructions
• Both languages are unashamedly raw and untyped
• Both derive their considerable computational powers from their simplicity
• 𝜆-calculus prefix and Forth postfix have the same operational semantics
• 𝜆-calculus is declarative, but Forth is imperative
• 𝜆-calculus models a reduction machine, but Forth models a stack machine
With the resurgence of the stack architecture in the form of powerful, modern VMs, it would seem reasonable to reunite these long-lost twins.
Photoblog: “Comparing 𝑀𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑠 populations between dolines and surrounding areas in Hungary", Bonita Ratkai give us an inside about her research on variation among populations of 𝑀𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑠 in dolines.
I made this Vertical Stick-On Lip Balm Holder and published it due to public pressure from my friends... I also made a bunch to give away.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/09/01/vertical-stick-on-lip-balm-holder/
I want to get the kid into #programming and I'am looking for a nice environment for elementary school kids to start with maybe more graphical for now then text oriented.
The constraint I have is I want to teach #functional (instead of imperative) thinking right from the start and all I know so far have more an imperative approach.
If he'd been a 12yo I'd directly start into #haskell or a spredsheet software, but not with the 7yo.
Suggestions? #fp
I've been doing a lot of reading over the past week about 3d physics engines for #GameDev, and how to make them perform on modern multicore hardware; and I'm increasingly wondering why people are not trying pure #functional physics engines, which *should* parallelise much more cleanly. The only one I can find is this in #Haskell:
https://github.com/sebcrozet/falling3d
Does anyone have any other pointers? I'd be particularly interested in anything in #Lisp or #Clojure
ACCU 2024 SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT: The Evolution of Functional Programming in C++ by @neuroevolutus
https://accuconference.org/session/the-evolution-of-functional-programming-in-cpp
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We just published a new 
of #JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023!
Watch Tim Zöller talking about 'Embrace the #Func - How Far has #Functional Programming Come in Java?'
In recent #Java releases, the focus has often been on features known from …
Watch it now: https://youtu.be/lBnmaixNYPA
One of the things I like from #functional programming that more people need to use is "just use lists".
so many backend devs twist themselves into knots building complex APIs that can return a list of results, a single result, or a "no result found" error, when you could just return a list, a list with one element, or no elements.
#introduction time!
I love #programming, I do it since *redacted* years, especially interested in #functional languages and in general about software architecture.
Started to accumulate some #gamedev experience inside @owofgames .
I have strong opinions about games and game culture, but I'll mostly post about technical stuff in here.
(probably)
(maybe)
(well, i guess my current propic already says a lot)
I'm thinking about doing #freelance / consulting-type work once I finish university. Currently I'm working on my master's thesis and have a job, but still:
If you, your company or someone you know could use a passionate person with expertise especially in #Nix, #NixOS, #functional programming (e.g. in #Haskell or #scala), type systems, #foss, #python, #linux administration / infrastructure, research, training and education such as workshops or seminars, and a lot of other areas as well, contact me at work@eisfunke.com!
I've also started collecting some relevant information at:
https://www.eisfunke.com/work.html (still work-in-progress though)
My partner and I desperately need #MentalHealth #therapy both individually and as a couple. This is yet another delightful #feature of #poverty; we're too #poor to get the help we need to function like normal adults, and we're not stable or #functional enough to maintain the kind of #income necessary to pay for thorough, effective #psychotherapy.
#NatureServe, which curates #biodiversity data from across #Canada 
and the #United #States 
estimates that “40% of #animals and 34% of #plants in the #USA are at risk of #extinction, while 41% of #ecosystems are facing #collapse.”
Each extinction is forever, and can create an unfillable #functional gap in an ecosystem.
Collapse begets collapse - of ecosystems, #ecosystem #services, and #societies. We are collectively on a #dangerous track.
So, last month I learned a bit of #clojure, and this month I'm tooling around with #elixir. They're both explicitly functional languages and they both support this notion of "argument destructuring". Even if you're not familiar with functional languages, you've probably run across destructuring before in #python or #javascript, something like:
`const [a, b] = [5, 10];`
It turns out, #functional languages really like destructuring and use it in a bunch of places. One of those places is in arguments to functions.
