Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Picture Me Coding
Into the Well of Formal Verifications
This week Mike and Erik were trying to understand the arena of formal verification: what are these tools? Where do they come from? How do they work? Can we categorize them?
There's a ton of stuff to talk about in this area and we're just learning the things, so we made an attempt here to wade in and figure stuff out!
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Here Are Some Links to Stuff We Discussed
- Lamport’s A Science of Concurrent Programs (pdf)
- Dafny
- Cloudflare’s Formally Verified DNS
- P language
- Wadler’s Propositions as Types paper
- Hillel Wayne’s “Let’s Prove Leftpad” and repo
- Amazon Science page on “automated reasoning” as an area
- Amazon paper “Model checking distributed protocols in Must”
