Re: [TYPES] R: ETAPS bars Russian researchers from attending

2022-03-10 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Thanks, Alex. Reading that prompted me to reach out to my programming languages friends in Russia and check on them. Indeed a number have fled the country already, and are currently out of work, and have family stuck in

Re: [TYPES] ETAPS bars Russian researchers from attending

2022-03-09 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Yes, there was an academic boycott on South Africa. And the general consensus in retrospect by scholars of South Africa is that it accomplished nothing beyond sanctions except for "sending a message," and again at the

Re: [TYPES] ETAPS bars Russian researchers from attending

2022-03-08 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I agree this is a bad move. Ever since JetBrains' statement against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I've been proud to continue to collaborate with them. Furthermore, discrimination based on national origin is against

Re: [TYPES] online conferences should be free (was: global debriefing over our virtual experience of conferences)

2021-06-05 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Since I complained as last year about this, I've joined on the SPLASH hybridization committee. My understanding so far is: - there are some hidden costs - overcharging some people acts as a subsidy for other people who

Re: [TYPES] What's a program? (Seriously)

2021-05-19 Thread Talia Ringer
consider them as operations running on an > > actual computer, then we will have strong preferences! > > > > 4. A common source of confusion arises from the fact that if you have > > a nice type-theoretic language (like the STLC), the

Re: [TYPES] What's a program? (Seriously)

2021-05-18 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] > > For example, if I write a proof in Agda, using function extensionality, > is it a program? No. But if I write --cubical in the header of my Agda > program and import a suitable cubical library, then yes. I can define

[TYPES] What's a program? (Seriously)

2021-05-18 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Hi friends, I have a strange discussion I'd like to start. Recently I was debating with someone whether Curry-Howard extends to arbitrary logical systems---whether all proofs are programs in some sense. I argued yes, he

Re: [TYPES] global debriefing over our virtual experience of conferences

2020-08-24 Thread Talia Ringer
e consume en gavage) and instead just go to lovely > low-stress workshops and send my work periodically to journals, I would be > so happy. > > Best, > Jon > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, at 11:11 AM, Talia Ringer wrote: > > [ The Types Forum, > http://lists.seas.upenn.ed

Re: [TYPES] global debriefing over our virtual experience of conferences

2020-08-23 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I used to argue against changing conference deadline systems a lot, but the pandemic response and political events in the US have made it clear to me that this is a diversity issue. When a deadline is only once per year

Re: [TYPES] online conferences should be free (was: global debriefing over our virtual experience of conferences)

2020-08-23 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I don't know about PLDI, but there are some costs associated with online events. For example, automatic captioning software is still not very good (Google's always turns "proofs" into "fruits" for me). Live captioning is

[TYPES] Question about UIP and decidable equality

2020-02-17 Thread Talia Ringer
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Hello, I have a question that has been bugging me for a long time, and I'm hoping someone has some insight. I'm working in vanilla CIC, and right now I'm interested in types "A : Type" and "B : I -> Type" for which