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The Good Soldier LMeyerov
Personal blog · lmeyerov.blogspot.comprogrammingdata
The Good Soldier LMeyerov is a personal blog at lmeyerov.blogspot.com about programming and data. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in a comment on the Z3 theorem prover thread as an example of a program verifier built on Z3. The comment explains SMT solving and its use in verification and synthesis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
@LMeyerov: Scientist-at-large launching a big data visualization startup. Previous life in hacking new languages: Superconductor for hardware accelerated data visualization, Ph.D. at Berkeley on multicore web browsers, Flapjax for reactive JavaScript (FRP), and ConScript+Margrave fo
What Hacker News says?
Z3 is about "satisfiability modulo theories", which basically means a SAT solver with smart extensions for things like floating point arithmetic that would otherwise die under a naive encoding. It's used for program verification, and in my group, program synthesis. OR tools like Google's choke on such problems that require reasoning about logic, recursive functions, etc. For an example of a program verifier using Z3…
Comment linking /2013/09/sneak-peek-for-my-strange-loop-talk-on.html
on “Z3: A high-performance theorem prover from Microsoft Research”Submitted Languages for Bad Programmers as a story · 9 points
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