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BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he intends to change the name of The Chinese Remainder Theorem to The USA Remainder Theorem

📣 Upenn Security & Privacy Seminars 📣 As the new semester begins, we’re excited to restart the SP Lab seminar series at the University of Pennsylvania! If you’d like to present your recent work in Cryptography, System Security, Blockchains, or related areas, please DM me!

Rocq when it expects a fin (S n) and I give it a fin (n+1)

I used to think ASTs with just two constructors UnaryOp and BinOp where old fashioned, but I think it actually saves a ton of lines of code (especially if using copilot).

An interpreter is simply dynamic dispatch on a loop. A compiler trades dynamic dispatch for static dispatch. Can we have the cake (an interpreter) and eat it too (static dispatch)?

People using SMT solvers don’t know you can simply implement algebraic simplifications with smart constructors in 5x the time.

Theory is saying a DAG does not have cycles. Engineering is still adding a “visited” vector to the worklist algorithm because you know you will eventually hit a bug and it’s gonna be a pain to debug an infinite loop.

Reading in the editor is not the same as reading in the rendered PDF.

excited that my team at Bloomberg is supporting PhD students in certified programming (and other infra/sec topics too!) through a fellowship. 💻🛡️ includes stipend, tuition, and internship. timely for Rocq and proof assistant folks as science funding tightens. please apply! 📬

🎓 I have successfully defended my PhD. Deeply thankful to my advisors Sebastian Angel and Steve Zdancewic for their support and mentorship throughout this journey. Next I’m joining Microsoft Research and the RiSE group to work on AI assisted verification.

Emina Torlak from Amazon Web Services delivered a wonderful keynote about the Cedar authorization engine. #cav2025

I'm hiring at the EF: jobs.lever.co/ethereumfounda… If you're into Ethereum, cryptography, and formal verification, please get in touch! 🙂

From Wawa to WA.

If you are at OOPSLA 2025, don't miss Lef's presentation of our paper "Structural temporal logic for mechanized program verification" on Saturday October 18, at 3:15 PM (Singapore time). Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.14906. Code: github.com/vellvm/ticl.

Well this is embarrassing.

how it feels listening to this podcast

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk on #Ticl a “Structural Temporal Logic for Mechanized Program Verification” at #OOPSLA. Despite being in the last day, we had a pretty good turn out!