Gershom Bazerman
Gershom is a software developer in New York City. He is an organizer of the NY Haskell Users Group and the NY Homotopy Type Theory Reading group, and a member of the Haskell.org committee. He has written a number of widely used Haskell packages, most notably the JMacro library for programmatic generation of JavaScript. He has a particular interest in popularizing results of research related to and deriving from the mathematical foundations of computer science. He occasionally contributes blog articles at the Comonad Reader.
Talks I've Given
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Programming with Universal Properties
Featuring Gershom Bazerman
Often, categorists will speak about "universal properties" when discussing basic constructions. Understanding what these are can be one of the more confusing aspects of coming to terms with category theory. But it turns out that there is one weird trick that lets us take universal...
haskell functional-programming category-theory