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Linear Recurrences

Published: October 7, 2026 00:01

Solving first- and higher-order Linear Recurrences as monoid reductions, even in parallel, and not just with multiplication and addition but for general semirings or near semirings. Composing monoids by semidirect product.

Parallel Fun with Monoids and Map-Reduce,

Published: September 8, 2026 00:01

Significantly re-written Parallel Fun with Monoids and Map-Reduce, showing how map-reduce and conjugate transform arise naturally, among other things. Also added are more exercises.

Modular Explicits:

Published: July 3, 2026 00:01

Modular Explicits: a lightweight and general encoding of module-dependent functions in ordinary OCaml (as an instance of Reynolds representation of abstract types using universals rather than existentials). Even more lightweight higher-kinded polymorphism.

Generators: the API for traversal, iteration and non-determinism:

Published: June 8, 2026 00:01

Generators: the API for traversal, iteration and non-determinism: completely re-written from the point of view of push/pull iteration, emphasizing how simple push generators and yield are to implement.

Bibliographic `web service' in VAX/VMS times: or shell scripting done right.

Published: May 5, 2026 00:01

Bibliographic `web service' in VAX/VMS times: or shell scripting done right. If VAX were more widespread Perl would not have been needed.

Matrix-matrix multiplication, from less conventional points of view:

Published: April 7, 2026 00:01

Matrix-matrix multiplication, from less conventional points of view: including an elegant imperative view