I’d like to thank Ashley for letting me know about Mozilla Fellowships! I want to apply but I’m not sure under which profile: open web, tech policy, or science/research. I’m all three! My first leaning would be science/research, but I’m an independent researcher affiliated only with IGDORE. I reached out and it should be fine, as long as I highlight my academic connections as well.

Today, I’m proud to share that I’ll be a speaker at SciPy 2018! My collaborator Konstantinos and I will also contribute a paper to the conference proceedings. I feel very excited but also overwhelmed with all my projects. This week, I’ve invested in physicality because it’s so good and balancing and necessary. I’m sore from an intro class to aerial hoop and it feels great. Acrobatics is dreamy, isn’t it?

I have put the final touch to my long-lived pull request. Finally. Admittedly, there isn’t much going on, but it’s served as a good pretext to engage in meta-level considerations and in-person conversations. At some point this afternoon, I joined a session about lambda calculus… We find some of the abstraction and expressiveness of lambda calculus in functional programming languages.

We thought we could view imperative programming (where you execute instructions with explicit control flow) as bottom-up and declarative programming (where you evaluate expressions with no explicit control flow) as top-down. We wondered how the hardware related to the way you compute. This reminded me of a talk I didn’t fully understand back at LibrePlanet 2017: The Lisp machine and GNU.