Anthony Cowley

@acowley
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Functional roboticist. 
Robots, Haskell, Rust, nix, emacs, FPV… and the rest of life, too.

Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane

(Edit: I posted videos in the replies, if that's of interest❤️)

#space #nasa #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #spaceflight

@rocq is this true??
what are we doing here man
@joe Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they couldzilla, they didn't stop to think if they shouldzilla
when there's a little edge case that doesn't *quite* fit your abstraction, so you handle it with a little if/else to get things working. but then later a second little edge case pops up that has the same shape as the first and you're like "ohhh now i get it" and a better abstraction—the one you probably should have used in the first place—reveals itself to you
our house, in the middle of the street 🎶

Expecting to see more like this, but good to really think about it: “Aver is a programming language for auditable AI-written code: verify in source, deploy with Rust, prove with Lean/Dafny”

It's not clear to me that the workflow of moving between spec, proof, deploy is really setup for iterative refinement the way I'd want here, but it's got a lot of good pieces!

https://github.com/jasisz/aver

Always trying to channel Mr Rogers 😄
@acowley Maybe it's for no human and no computer, like the company wiki.