Current reading

Wadler’s influential “monads” paper for Haskell. It seems like a classic case of making something simple sound profound and mysterious.  And companion paper by Hughes on “why functional programming matters” . See also some comments above. McCarthy’s original LISP paper.  Just

Time out of joint

Financial trading venues and trading systems operate so quickly and rely on clocks so deeply that events like the one noted in this FINRA report are more common than many understand The findings stated that the firm transmitted to OATS