2016 Talk 3: Wazim

[cgswords]

Mostly, a great talk. It was informative, and I felt like I really understood what you were doing! That was really cool! You probably want a laser pointer for the real talk to point at the slides.

Some nit-picky things (almost entirely slide-formatting things; the presentation itself was solid):

• The slides for introducing the initial language were incredibly crowded. I would remove the judgment rules and the distribution pictures; simply provide the implementation and invocations and describe the behavior.
• Add more space between the 'slide title' and the 'section title'; make it clear what we should really be paying attention to.
• Why \x . cx instead of just c ?
• Casually dropping the word 'continuation' to explain an integral is... confusing. Ah, the second slide clarified. I'd try to be stronger about that connection.
• Please use && or and instead of ^ for and.
• The generalization of the density examples was a bit hard to follow. More directly (maybe formally) stating the induction and the cases would provide nice sign-posting.
• What are the emojis for? They clutter the slide; maybe strip them?
• I missed why we went to lists, or what the lists actually contain. Presumably the density; how do we interpret that result? Also, don't use Haskell's list comprehension syntax there because it's easy to confuse [ .. | .. ] from [] on a slide.
• In The Paper could be 3 slides, and broken out more. Also, actually hearing about applications would be swell.

[cderici]

• probably good idea to avoid more than one title for one slide
• too many information on the "Calculating probability densities" slide, it was somewhat hard for me to follow, also in the "Deriving density calculator".
• it may help to be consistent on showing lambda functions (with or without black background)
• it's unclear from the slide whether the Exp e | Var v | Lev v e e ... are already in the paper, or are those future work..

[ccshan]

Matt Might recommends a good laser pointer, but you might be able to find a brighter one. Avoid Bluetooth.