Val Hovey

I’m still processing everything I experienced watching the theatrical release of Project Hail Mary.

The Maybe and Either types may be Haskell’s most notable contribution to computer science, inspiring similar structures in Rust, C++, JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

I would like to share the knowledge I wish I could have read when I was learning Haskell earnestly.

Artwork by my good friend Sophia Wood On Physics Recently, I was surprised to learn that the existence of quanta is not fundamental in our current understanding of physics.

Artwork by my good friend Sophia Wood As we enter this fantastic and bizarre age of Artificial Intelligence, we are rapidly coming to grips with philosophical questions that were reserved for heady academic discussions just a few years ago.

Whether it was my father’s profession as a Winemaker, or the frequency of my time spent in the back seat of the car as a kid on long drives through the Central Valley of California, watching vineyards pass by on endless pastoral back-roads was one of the…

All too many times in our educational paths the answer to curious inquiry is tautological: Why does it work that way?

In my last post, I shared my journey through understanding the link between entropy, thermodynamics, evolution, computation, and mathematics.

Do you ever get the feeling that there is some universal structure underpinning reality?

In some esoteric need to further my math addiction, I recently purchased a HP48 Reverse Polish Notation calculator.