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[This work in currently in progress, therefore still kind of reliant on a long and verbose dissertation, but I plan to shorten it into a self-contained blogpost when I have more time] Introduction In this blogpost we build a distributed datalog engine that can process datalog queries such as the one below in a distributed fashion. The key idea mimics the usual dataflow programming idea such as MapReduce where we shard our data and create a dataflow-graph to specify the computation we want....

Denotational Semantics is a unique course offered by the Computer Lab at UoC. It can be intimidating at first glance but at the same time bring you lots of fun and frustration at the same time. In this blog post we will look at three proof techniques in domain theory and investigate the connections between them. In this blog we look at three techniques that can be used to prove the fixpoint of a function, namely, Tarski’s fixpoint theorem, lfp1 + lfp2 and Scott induction....