LaToya Anderson - Quantum Chemistry and a Tweag Fellowship

March 3rd, 2022  |  48 mins 13 secs

chemistry, dance, fellowship, physics, quantum

Noon sits down with recent Tweag-Fellow LaToya Anderson to discuss her project, her background, the quantum computing ecosystem and how a dancer became a quantum physicist!

Simon Peyton-Jones - A Microsoft Research Retrospective

November 18th, 2021  |  50 mins 38 secs

epic games, haskell, microsoft, spj

Richard Eisenberg sits down with Simon Peyton-Jones for a "fireside" conversation about his time at Microsoft Research.

Quantum computing with Chris Granade

October 29th, 2021  |  54 mins 20 secs

physics, quantum

Noon and Chris sit down to have a chat about the quantum computing ecosystem, Chris' background, and their recent work on Q#, as well as the book they have co-authored!

Shpadoinkle?

August 6th, 2021  |  51 mins 35 secs

Noon sits down with Isaac Shapira to discuss the development of a new functional UI programming paradigm - the Shpadoinkle.

Computational analysis of metabolic networks with Apostolos Chalkis

July 14th, 2021  |  37 mins 21 secs

Apostolos Chalkis talks about his package for analysis of metabolic networks by sampling their steady states using geometric random walks

Nix in production with Rickard Nilsson

June 23rd, 2021  |  46 mins 48 secs

Rok chats to the founder of NixBuild.net - Rickard Nilsson - about all things Nix and CI.

Functional Programming Leaders with Mathieu Boespflug

June 2nd, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins

tweag

In this episode, Robin Bate Boerop talks to Mathieu Boespflug, the founder and CEO of Tweag. Mathieu talks about how he came to start Tweag and what he believed he wanted to bring to the software industry, industry trends, language interoperability, build systems and cutting-edge research that is coming to the programming languages we know and love!

Community Chat with Lyndon Maydwell

May 12th, 2021  |  58 mins 16 secs

haskell, hasura

Kicking off the first "Community Chat" session, Noon chats to Melbourne-based Hasura engineer Lyndon Maydwell (aka "sordina") about his journey into functional programming, and avoiding success at all costs!

Nix in Production with Domen Kožar

April 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

Domen Kožar is the founder of Cachix, a popular caching service and one of the first products exclusively targeting the Nix ecosystem. He is also behind various community initiatives such as, for example, most recently a open collective fund to improve Nix' MacOS support. In this episode, Rok talks to Domen about how he came to work with Nix, his experiences with it and thoughts on how it evolves.

Linear types AMA with Richard Eisenberg, Krzysztof Gogolewski and Arnaud Spiwack

March 31st, 2021  |  1 hr 16 mins

Linear types are a new feature shipped with Haskells latest GHC compiler release 9.0. They allow to restrict a function to use an argument exactly once which opens all kinds of possibilities. Three core developers from the Haskell linear types team give an introduction to them and answer community questions in this episode.

Functional Programming Leaders with Doug Beardsley

March 10th, 2021  |  48 mins 58 secs

This episode's guest is Doug Beardsley, also known as mightybyte, director of engineering at Kadena, a blockchain company that uses Haskell in production. Doug is one of the few software engineering leaders who have used Haskell and advanced functional programming techniques in production systems for a long time at various companies. If you are interested in how he came into this position, as well as how he sees functional programming evolve and now positioned in the wider software industry, this episode is for you!

Binary verification with Trustix starring Adam Höse

February 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins

Rok Garbas talks to Adam Höse the creator of Trustix a tool that automatically verifies the content of software binaries with implications on binary security, the software supply chain and reproducibility tracking.