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Paracompactyesterday at 8:39 PM1 replyview on HN

It warms my heart every time I see an interactive proof assistant being used to improve rather than simply slow down mathematical thinking.

After years of using the things, I believe not enough focus is given to high-velocity uses of proof assistants for prototyping. They can altogether replace scratch paper for fumbling around with new concepts.


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dnauticsyesterday at 8:53 PM

WIP, but that is the target ethos in the prover I'm building:

https://github.com/ityonemo/bpa

Its painfully verbose and explicit but its designed to let you cut down to the structure of the proof with a query language