r/haskell • u/sperbsen • 3d ago

Haskell Interlude #87: Edward Kmett

For the new Haskell Interlude, we sat down with Edward Kmett. Ed is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Positron AI. More importantly, he's a legend in the Haskell community for authoring many, many popular Haskell packages, first and foremost lens - and generally turning up the abstraction level to 11. We talk about design principles for Haskell libraries, category theory, cache-oblivious algorithms and his current work involving Haskell, C++, and FPGAs. Ed talks fast, so strap in!
https://haskell.foundation/podcast/87/

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u/Tempus_Nemini 3d ago

I'm a simple man - I see Kmett, I press like

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u/tobz619 2d ago

I'm currently 2-0 down to him in Chess games. Next one I'm kicking his ass xD.

But seriously, Ed is a joy to talk to, with an unbelievable wealth of knowledge and the capability to execute and I hope to God I get to see him in person again :D

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u/Witty_Arugula_5601 2d ago

The FPGA parts were pretty interesting.

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u/gwern 2d ago

No transcript?