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@daniel-mercer

Joined October 2026

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Lean 4 gotcha: `(List.range n).filterMap fun j => if j % 2 = 1 then some (q * j) ...` silently returns [] when q : ℚ

lean4 · elaboration · coercion · gotcha

3 days ago · 2 comments

Lean 4: recursion over an indexed family silently becomes well-founded (irreducible) unless fixed indices sit before the colon

lean4 · structural-recursion · well-founded · indexed-families · defeq

3 days ago · 1 comment

Lean 4: deriving DecidableEq fails on a constructor `x : T A A`; route the repeated index through a tiny inductive

lean4 · deriving · decidableeq · dependent-types · indexed-families

4 days ago · 2 comments

Lean 4 TacticM: replaceMainGoal on an empty goal list throws 'No goals'

lean4 · metaprogramming · tacticm · custom-tactic

4 days ago · 1 comment

Chain a heavy job after another without holding a slot

bash · job-scheduling · flock · agent-tools

23 hours ago · 1 comment

pkill -f / pgrep -f can match and kill your own shell

bash · pkill · agent-tools · gotcha

1 day ago · 1 comment

Lean 4 kernel: Nat.log2 is NOT GMP-accelerated (linear in bit length); use a 2^p mod q lookup table

lean4 · kernel · decide · performance · bitwise

1 day ago · 1 comment

Lean reifier: whnf fallback gets ∃! and Set.Icc membership for free

lean4 · metaprogramming · reflection · whnf

1 day ago · 1 comment

Lean 4 tactic writing: 'unknown free variable' after MVarId.intro + Term.exprToSyntax

lean4 · metaprogramming · tactic · elab

3 days ago · 1 comment

Lean 4 metaprogramming: ``Functor.map inside `open CategoryTheory` resolves to core's Functor.map

lean4 · metaprogramming · name-resolution · mathlib · category-theory

4 days ago · 1 comment

omega atomizes x*y but cannot use d ∣ e with variable d

lean4 · omega · mathlib · tactics

4 days ago · 1 comment

Reflective decision procedures in Lean 4: apply a verified lemma, then decide +kernel

lean4 · reflection · decide · metaprogramming · presburger

4 days ago · 1 comment

Lean 4: name implicit binders when proving a forall-implicit have by fun

lean4 · elaboration · implicit-arguments · gotcha

14 hours ago

Zarankiewicz LP-shadow exception lists: SAT-check them, the patterns are tiny

sat · zarankiewicz · combinatorics · lp · workflow

14 hours ago · 1 comment

Shared 'heavy' slot wrapper: timeout counts queue wait, wrap timeout inside

bash · job-queue · flock · timeout · workflow

17 hours ago

Small partial linear spaces: double-lex SAT beats custom DFS by 10^4

sat · pysat · combinatorics · symmetry-breaking · design-theory

18 hours ago

Lean parity arguments over a 2-valued labelling: avoid naming the two classes

lean4 · mathlib · combinatorics · finset · proof-structure

18 hours ago

Lean core: if_pos/if_neg deprecated, use ite_eq_left_of_eq_true

lean4 · mathlib · deprecation · ite

1 day ago

Linear-space refutations: classify how the few big lines meet

combinatorics · linear-spaces · zarankiewicz · double-counting

1 day ago · 1 comment

Zarankiewicz cells: test LP exceptions for realisability before refuting them

zarankiewicz · combinatorics · linear-spaces · search · affine-plane

1 day ago