Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026There's also been some improvements to the editor tooling. Treesitter and Pygments can now highlight indexed families, effects, instances, handlers, and resumption grades, and the language server now has checked hovers, completions, rename, symbols, and target-aware diagnostics. 102
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Named `define`s can be run directly without wrapping them in a probabilistic `program`, making small semantic components independently testable using `qvr run`. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Fixed shape collections are now checked too, and you can `map`, `fold`, and `traverse`. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Effects can be open, so a computation can say which instances it requires while preserving effects supplied by its caller. `lacks` constraints rule out duplicate lexical instances when unknown. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Effect instances are lexical. Two instances of the same interface remain distinct effects, and `with instance` allocates a fresh local identity. A total handler must discharge that identity before it can escape its scope. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Handlers can now be authored in QVR with their coverage, forwarding, and resumption grade. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Effects are now source-level interfaces that can take static parameters. An operation’s result may depend on the parameter, so one interface can distinguish requests whose answers have different indexed types. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026QVR now has indexed families, which means a constructor can refine an index, so an invariant such as exact versus loose resolution is represented in the value’s type. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026Quivers now has a typed, executable IR for QVR that preserves indexed types, effects, handlers, and probabilistic operations after checking and is consumed by the interpreter and transpilers. 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/09/2026QVR programs can now transpile to BUGS, Church, Edward2, Gen, JAGS, NumPyro, PyMC, Pyro, Stan, Turing, and WebPPL, and the checker will tell you when a transpilation isn't supported (usually because the QVR can't be preserved in the target). 100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 09/09/2026Imagine telling someone in 2009 that this is what python would become. Deeply cursed. 171
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 06/09/2026After using a lot of cubic grain film (Tri-X, HP5), it really is striking just how sharp T-grain film (Ektapan, formerly T-Max) can be at the exact same ISO. 030
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 04/09/2026What do we Rochesterians do for fun? Well. Mostly we just sort of walk around the Genny Brewhouse and take photos of the old flour mill on our Kodak film. 030
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/08/2026The solution to one's blood sugar being in the boolean algebra is indeed generally Tanqueray 10 and a walk. post-like.exe.xyz 020
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 25/07/2026If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature! 082
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 17/07/2026Congratulations to Dr. Jin Dou (@jin-dou.bsky.social) on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday!The dissertation focuses on understanding how humans process naturalistic speech using EEG. Check out all the awesome work he did during his PhD! powerfulbean.github.io 070
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 09/07/2026Doing some final tweaks on the lexicons for a little hobby project. 170
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 23/06/2026Kind of obsessed with this new-to-me macro lens. 050
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 20/06/2026Multiple generations of JHU semanticists at @elm-conference.bsky.social (with nearly half current and prior JHU x Rochester: four UR + one RIT). 0120
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 17/06/2026Just finished scanning negatives from my trip to Denver and really like how these shots of the Populus building came out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus... 1100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 07/06/2026Who doesn’t love a ridiculously large banner. 140
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 04/06/2026Heading to Denver for CVPR tomorrow then Philly for ELM next week, but really wondering why I’d ever leave Rochester in late spring. 060
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/05/2026That time of the year when Rochester smells like flowers for a month straight. 0242
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 15/05/2026For when you need to transport back to 2012 stat! 030
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 30/04/2026As always, my board organization is chaos, but last day of class on MCFG parsing was a banger imo. 0110
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/04/2026So panproto now has type classes and a repl. 1191
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 23/04/2026I just love picturing 15-year-old Zappa in his room in Lancaster listening to Edgard Varese and imagining one of his compositions could be about the AV. www.afka.net/Articles/197... 020
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 22/04/2026For the mezcal nerds, these are done by the same importer as Cinco Sentidos,who also does Alamabique Serrano. If you haven’t checked out Alambique Serrano’s stuff, do. Have had multiple conversations now with people around Roc of the form “have you tried the Cobra?!” 000
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 22/04/2026You know you’re in it when (one of) your rum guy(s) is sending you personalized texts about the new Mexican fresh cane juice rums they just got in. 150
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 22/04/2026Doing my favorite lecture of the semester today. 360
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 22/04/2026We are killing it on invited speakers this week. (Been looking forward to @anids.bsky.social’s talk for months!) 1100
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 14/04/2026This was such a chill game. Great way to burn an afternoon. And the graphics are so sick. playism.com/en/game/moti... 030