When I first encountered the concept of an adjunction, I got quite confused as to what it is, and why it is useful: Just how on earth is a left adjoint of a functor? What’s the matter of a free and forgetful functor, why is free left to forgetful but not the other way round. That’s where this blog comes from. I hope this blogpost can help demystify adjunction for you a little bit....
This article is very much my attempt to understand monad as a design pattern in programming languages and why on earth it is useful. There are tons of monad tutorials online, but I found relatively few ones argue for the usefulness of a monad by having side by side code examples that achieve similar functionalties. If you found one, please do let me know! I try to draw connections between monads’ original mathematical definition and its actual usage so that this mysterious concept does not come out of the blue....
Denotational Semantics is a unique course offered by the Computer Lab at UoC. It can be intimidating at first glance but at the same time bring you lots of fun and frustration at the same time. In this blog post we will look at three proof techniques in domain theory and investigate the connections between them. In this blog we look at three techniques that can be used to prove the fixpoint of a function, namely, Tarski’s fixpoint theorem, lfp1 + lfp2 and Scott induction....