Rob Stewart
robstewartuk.bsky.social
Rob Stewart
@robstewartuk.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University. Accelerating functional languages and AI in software and hardware.

https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/
We recently gave a seminar at IOG (IOHK).

We presented our 3 functional programming language processors: Heron, KappaMutor and Siege. We discussed the historical computer architectures that influences our work (see slide) and also our desire to lower the barrier for industry adoption of our tech.
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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June 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tiny suggestion - I'm unsure whether the 1st edition included an example of recursive Eval monad parallelism. Performance-wise, `runEval` is free, recursive calls to it doesn't have overhead. See the attached example. Apologies if recursive `runEval` calls is discussed, I must've missed it.
March 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I often point students to The Elements of Style by Strunk & White for dissertation or paper writing. I've come across researcher Laura Lisabeth, who "combines historiography and cultural studies to critically examine" this guide, touching on racial identity, social power and marginalised identities.
March 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The comments section in a Telegraph review of a new EV car is entirely predictable. #EV
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"For me"... really? Elon Musk algorithms in overdrive, pushing content to a non-American with no alignment to the politics or people in those news articles. A race to the bottom over on Twitter.

Beware the American tech bro oligarchs pushing the Trump 2024 agenda.
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Real functional programmers code in SK.

(from Matthew Naylor, adapted from Chris Kania)
November 25, 2024 at 11:54 AM
In Scotland: 3 degrees at 4pm, rising to 13 degrees at 4am the following morning. An Insight into weather instability caused by climate change.
November 23, 2024 at 1:57 PM