Tacit Talk

In this episode, Conor highlights the On Notation keynote at RacketCon 2026 and the work of Pat Hanrahan, the latter part of the episode is a Notebook LLM generated conversation.
Socials
Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
Show Notes
Date Released: 2026-10-19
On Notation
Pat Hanrahan
RSL
VizQL
A History of Mathematical Notations by Florian Cajori
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

In this episode, "Representation-Driven Dispatch" (generated by Claude 4.6 Opus) is read by the Speechify text-to-speech app.
Socials
Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
Show Notes
Date Released: 2026-04-15
Representation-Driven Dispatch

In this episode, Conor interviews Madeline Vergani about TinyAPL 0.13, inverses, AP8L and more!
Socials
Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
About the Guest
Madeline Vergani is the creator of TinyAPL, the Omnibar and AP8L.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-03-31
Madeline Vergani on APL Wiki
TinyAPL
TinyAPL on APL Wiki
TinyAPL Inverse
Omnibar
TinyAPL Combinators
ArrayCast Episode 88: Madeline Vergani and tinyapl
Tacit Talk Episode 14: TinyAPL with Madeline Vergani
Madeline's Blog
Most recent blog post
AP8L

In this episode, the 1972 paper "Algebra as a Language" by Kenneth E. Iverson is read by the Speechify text-to-speech app.
Socials
Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
Show Notes
Date Released: 2026-03-28
Algebra as a Language (1972)
Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment (1972)

In this episode, the "From List Calculus to Array Calculi" (generated by GPT 5.4) is read by the Speechify text-to-speech app.
Socials
Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
Show Notes
Date Released: 2026-03-18
From List Calculus to Array Calculi
An Introduction to the Theory of Lists (1986)
Mathematics of Arrays (MoA)
The Algebra of Programming (1996)
Algegraic Identities for Program Calculation (1989)
Algorithm Design with Haskell (2020)
Bird-Meertens Formalism (BMF)
The School of Squiggol: A History of BMF (2019)
Single Assignment C (SaC)
Lectures on Constructive Functional Programming