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- F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language https://www.fstar-lang.org/ 102 comments
- Alberta ditches proof-of-vaccine program midnight, masking for students Monday https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-ditches-proof-of-vaccine-program-at-midnight-masking-for-students-monday-1.5772684 3 comments
- Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-become-mathematicians-co-pilot/ 175 comments
- Memory leak proof every C program https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/memory-leak-proof-every-C-program 162 comments
- Can the language of proof assistants be used for general purpose programming? https://proofassistants.stackexchange.com/questions/1093/can-the-language-of-proof-assistants-be-used-for-general-purpose-programming 50 comments
- F* : A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language https://fstar-lang.org/ 112 comments programming
- Why is program written with Haskell is more proof-able? https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9toh6b/why_is_program_written_with_haskell_is_more/ 28 comments haskell
- Detecting program-tampering in the cloud: a new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/detecting-program-tampering-in-the-cloud-0911.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+mit%2Fnews+%28mit+-+news%29 6 comments programming
- North Korea has developed its own nuclear enrichment technology for the first time ever, making its nuclear program totally self-sufficient and 'sanctions-proof' http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/25/north-koreas-nuclear-program-may-now-be-self-sufficient-why-thats-scary/ 6 comments worldnews
- 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/12/10/8-ways-to-recession-proof-your-programming-career/ 4 comments programming
- Is this legit? EverCrypt Researchers have just released hacker-proof cryptographic code — programs with the same level of invincibility as a mathematical proof. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-evercrypt-library-creates-hacker-proof-cryptography-20190402/ 6 comments privacy
- The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs | Quanta Magazine | Mathematical logic and the code of computer programs are, in an exact way, mirror images of each other https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-deep-link-equating-math-proofs-and-computer-programs-20231011/ 2 comments math
- Anti-Poverty Programs Work, and the Pandemic Is Proof. A new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute shows what the Left has always argued: that our best tool in the fight against poverty is redistributive social spending. https://jacobin.com/2022/09/anti-poverty-pandemic-unemployment-programs-child-tax-credit 67 comments politics
- This video explain why the incompleteness theorems were not a tragedy - it's argues that the Logicist Hilbert program never based the notion that the presence of a consistency proof has any value differentiating consistent from inconsistent systems on any grounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmX03El8iOc 7 comments philosophy
- Programming and proof in the kind-level continuation monad https://gist.github.com/masaeedu/8b0dd7596a901ea0b7240c6e4cc38b1b 9 comments haskell
- Safe Access Oahu program to require proof of vaccination or recent COVID test to enter establishments https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/08/30/breaking-news/watch-live-honolulu-mayor-rick-blangiardi-safe-to-announce-access-oahu-program/ 25 comments politics
- My unedited, uncensored thoughts about Ethereum, Cardano, Tezos, formal proofs and functional programming being a gimmick https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ns7yng/my_unedited_uncensored_thoughts_about_ethereum/? 7 comments cryptocurrency
- TIL discussions about best practices in programming are not recent, the proof is this letter from Dijkstra published in 1968 called "Go to statement considered harmful". https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf 30 comments programmertil
- Trump cites Sean Hannity’s Fox News program as proof hospitals are in “great shape” with ventilators https://www.salon.com/2020/04/08/trump-cites-sean-hannitys-fox-news-program-as-proof-hospitals-are-in-great-shape-with-ventilators/ 26 comments politics
- A list of 30+ free textbooks from calculus, linear algebra to discrete math, proof, combinatorics and programming https://danaernst.com/resources/free-and-open-source-textbooks/ 25 comments compsci
- Netanyahu says he has proof of secret Iranian nuclear program https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/middleeast/netanyahu-iran-nuclear-program/index.html 4 comments worldnews
- PM Nethanyahu presents conclusive proof Iran lied big time about nuclear weapons program https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-5246689,00.html 20 comments worldnews
- Can a "proof assistant" language like Coq be used for any general purpose programming? https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/77wtws/can_a_proof_assistant_language_like_coq_be_used/ 23 comments haskell
- How do proofs and discrete math fit in programming and software engineering? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/774b0h/how_do_proofs_and_discrete_math_fit_in/ 6 comments learnprogramming
- Software Foundations (Free ebook on basic concepts of logic, computer-assisted theorem proving, the Coq proof assistant, functional programming, operational semantics, Hoare logic, and static type systems) https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html 8 comments programming
- Any software engineers here? AI is just millions of "If/Then statements" in its current form. Am I wrong? Please come with either subjective evidence or a source for proof of AI "agency" that is not programmed. https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/5x26lj/any_software_engineers_here_ai_is_just_millions/ 81 comments artificial
- Intuitionistic logic: The intimate connection between programming and proofs. [PDF] http://www.phil.uu.nl/~dvdalen/articles/blackwell(dalen).pdf 17 comments math
- Iran: UN report proof of peaceful nuclear program http://news.yahoo.com/iran-un-report-proof-peaceful-nuclear-program-095148499.html 4 comments worldnews
- Charlie Miller gets kicked out of Apple's developer program for building a proof of concept app to demonstrate a bug he'd reported to the company three weeks earlier. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/07/apple-exiles-a-security-researcher-from-its-developer-program-for-proof-of-concept-exploit-app/ 175 comments technology
- TIL about Geogebra. An immensely useful interactive graphics and algebra program. (I use it for my college proofs class!) http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ 17 comments math
- What is the difference between proofs and programs? [pdf] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.59.4712&rep=rep1&type=pdf 5 comments compsci
- No proof Iran weaponizing nuclear program http://www.jpost.com/servlet/satellite?cid=1261364500279&pagename=jpost%2Fjparticle%2Fshowfull 4 comments politics
- Lambda, The Ultimate TA: Using a Proof Assistant to Teach Programming Language Foundations [PDF] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/lambdata.pdf 8 comments programming
- The White House has decided to declassify and release a classified 2004 CIA report about the torture program that is reported to have found no proof that torture foiled any terror plots on American soil — directly contradicting Cheney’s claims. http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/white-house-to-declassify-holy-grail-torture-report-that-could-undercut-cheney/ 176 comments politics
- Israel - with 300 nuclear bombs and not a member of the NPT or subject to IAEA inspections - says UN nuclear chief should go for saying that there is no proof of an Iranian A-bomb program http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071108/wl_mideast_afp/israelirannuclearpolitics_071108152112;_ylt=aqxkjpz4hjjdoqnprsjx1tee1vai 320 comments politics
- Developing programs and their proofs in Haskell with GADTs http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/27062 4 comments programming
- Let me tell you about a concerning new pilot program launched by the BIS, Eurosystem, De Nederlandsche Bank, and the Deutsche Bundesbank last week - Project Atlas. Project Atlas is a Proof of Concept for surveilling the international flows of Bitcoin and all crypto-assets. https://www.bis.org/publ/othp76.pdf 10 comments bitcoin
Lambda the Ultimate
- Summer School on the Proofs-as-Programs Paradigm http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/summerschool/ 0 comments general
- Effective Interactive Proofs for Higher-Order Imperative Programs http://ynot.cs.harvard.edu/papers/icfp09.pdf 4 comments Implementation , Software Engineering , Type Theory
- Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/p271-de_millo.pdf 69 comments Critiques