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Danger Close: Why Types Matter

A startup’s gene analysis samples nearly melted because someone confused Fahrenheit and Celsius in their monitoring system. A Mars orbiter crashed because of mixed metric and imperial units. Medication dosing errors have killed patients due to milligrams versus micrograms confusion. These aren’t edge cases - they’re symptoms of a fundamental problem in how we build mission-critical systems: Most software treats types as an afterthought rather than a first line of defense.

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A Unified Vision for Ternary Models

A Unified Vision for Ternary Models

The advent of sub-quadratic AI models, heterogeneous computing, and unified memory architectures represents a pivotal …

Code Signing in the Era of Cyber Resilience

Code Signing in the Era of Cyber Resilience

The software industry never stands still. While in most cases this translates to technological advance, it also brings …

Discriminated Unions In Post-Transformer AI

Discriminated Unions In Post-Transformer AI

The AI industry stands at an inflection point. As detailed in our “Beyond Transformers” analysis, the …

That 2FA Call Is Already Inside Your Network

That 2FA Call Is Already Inside Your Network

The world got a wake-up call this week due to Bloomberg’s investigation into how “tiny middlemen” in …

Farscape's Modular Entry Points

Farscape's Modular Entry Points

The Fidelity framework’s Farscape CLI addresses a pressing challenge in modern software development: how to …

Intelligent Tree Shaking

Intelligent Tree Shaking

When we set out to design the Firefly compiler for the Fidelity Framework, one of our core goals was to produce truly …

Wrapping C and C++

Wrapping C and C++

The cybersecurity landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years, with memory safety vulnerabilities accounting for …

Considering HKTs in Fidelity

Considering HKTs in Fidelity

The debate over higher-kinded types (HKTs) in F# reveals fundamental tensions between theoretical elegance and practical …

SGen in Olivier and Prospero

SGen in Olivier and Prospero

In our work to bring F# to systems programming, we’re pursuing a vision of sophisticated memory management outside …

The Mosca Moment: Quantum Y2K

The Mosca Moment: Quantum Y2K

In 1993, while the tech world marveled at the newly-freed World Wide Web and debated the coming “Information …

Source-Level Dependency Resolution

Source-Level Dependency Resolution

The Firefly compiler represents a fundamental shift in how F# code gets compiled to native executables. Unlike …

The Twilight of Lazy Lock-in

The Twilight of Lazy Lock-in

The software industry has perfected a peculiar form of value extraction that emerges not through direct coercion or …

How Our Innovations Express Our Values

How Our Innovations Express Our Values

The Fidelity Framework and its ecosystem of technologies represent more than technical achievements, they embody our …

Scaling FidelityUI: The Actor Model

Scaling FidelityUI: The Actor Model

As we’ve established in previous entries, FidelityUI’s zero-allocation approach provides an elegant solution …

The Full Frosty Experience

The Full Frosty Experience

The Fidelity framework represents an ambitious project to bring F# to native compilation without runtime dependencies. …

Leveraging Fabulous for Native UI

Leveraging Fabulous for Native UI

The journey of creating a native UI framework for F# presents a fascinating challenge: how do we preserve the elegant, …

High Speed Inference

High Speed Inference

The future of AI inference lies not in ever-larger transformer models demanding massive GPU clusters, but in a diverse …

Accelerating Network Communication for Fidelity

Accelerating Network Communication for Fidelity

As a companion to our exploration of CXL and memory coherence, this article examines how the Fidelity framework could …

Building User Interfaces with the Fidelity Framework

Building User Interfaces with the Fidelity Framework

The Fidelity framework introduces a revolutionary approach to building desktop applications with F#, enabling developers …

ByRef Resolved

ByRef Resolved

The “byref problem” in .NET represents one of the most fundamental performance bottlenecks in managed …

Static and Dynamic Library Binding in the Fidelity framework

Static and Dynamic Library Binding in the Fidelity framework

At the intersection of two powerful but largely separate computing paradigms stands the Fidelity framework, a …

Next-Generation Memory Coherence

Next-Generation Memory Coherence

SpeakEZ’s Fidelity framework with its innovative BAREWire technology is uniquely positioned to take advantage of …

Toward A Transformerless Future

Toward A Transformerless Future

Here at SpeakEZ AI, we’re working on innovative approaches to distributed training of models that look beyond the …

Verifying F#

Verifying F#

Creating software with strong correctness guarantees has traditionally forced developers to choose between practical …

Memory Management by Choice

Memory Management by Choice

Here at SpeakEZ we’re rethinking how developers interact with memory management in systems programming. The …

F# Async From .NET to Fidelity

F# Async From .NET to Fidelity

We at SpeakEZ have been working on the Fidelity framework for a while, and it’s been a journey to find the right …

Frontend Unfuzzled: A Gentle Introduction to MLIR

Frontend Unfuzzled: A Gentle Introduction to MLIR

For .NET developers, the term “frontend” already carries rich meaning. It might evoke XAML-based …

Building Firefly with Alloy

Building Firefly with Alloy

The promise of functional programming has always been apparent: write code that expresses a process to an end result, …

The Shifting Computational Landscape and Returning Primacy of Compilers

The Shifting Computational Landscape and Returning Primacy of Compilers

The computing landscape has undergone seismic shifts over the past three decades, yet many of our foundational software …

Fargo: Native F# Source-Based Package Management

Fargo: Native F# Source-Based Package Management

The journey from managed code to native compilation in F# represents a significant architectural shift. As the Fidelity …

A Path Less Traveled: SpeakEZ's Innovations in Quantum-Resistant WireGuard

A Path Less Traveled: SpeakEZ's Innovations in Quantum-Resistant WireGuard

In the world of cryptography, a storm is brewing. Quantum computing, once a theoretical curiosity, has been steadily …

The Farscape Bridge

The Farscape Bridge

The computing landscape stands at an inflection point. AI accelerators are reshaping our expectations of performance …

A Window Layout System for Fidelity

A Window Layout System for Fidelity

The Fidelity framework aims to create a novel approach to building desktop applications with F#, enabling developers to …

The Hidden Dominance of Functional Programming

The Hidden Dominance of Functional Programming

When Simon Peyton Jones, one of the creators of Haskell and a renowned researcher in functional programming, explains …

F# Memory Management Goes Native

F# Memory Management Goes Native

In the coming waves of “AI” innovation, the computing landscape will continue to fragment into an …

The Fidelity Framework: A Primer

The Fidelity Framework: A Primer

The computing world has fragmented into specialized ecosystems - embedded systems demand byte-level control, mobile …

Transforming AI Efficiency

Transforming AI Efficiency

The AI industry is experiencing a profound shift in how computational resources are allocated and optimized. While the …

F# Goes Metal: Fidelity's Hardware/Software Co-Design Revolution

F# Goes Metal: Fidelity's Hardware/Software Co-Design Revolution

The embedded systems industry has operated under a fundamental assumption for decades: achieving hardware control …

Erlang Lessons in Fidelity: An Analysis

Erlang Lessons in Fidelity: An Analysis

Erlang emerged in the late 1980s at Ericsson, during an epoch when distributed systems were in their infancy and …

Rust Revisited: How Fidelity Advances Memory Management

Rust Revisited: How Fidelity Advances Memory Management

The Rust programming ecosystem has changed how the software industry thinks about memory management. By pioneering its …

Dimensionally-Constrained CNN to TopOC Transfer Learning

Dimensionally-Constrained CNN to TopOC Transfer Learning

At SpeakEZ, we are working on transformative approaches to transfer learning that combine convolutional neural networks …

Beyond Transformers

Beyond Transformers

In the world of artificial intelligence, a quiet revolution is taking place. For more than a decade, the presumed …

Seeing Beyond Assemblies

Seeing Beyond Assemblies

The .NET platform introduced the concept of assemblies over two decades ago, a fundamental building block that has …

The Problem(s) with Python

The Problem(s) with Python

A recent ONNX conference presentation reveals an illuminating reality about the current state of AI development …

Musings on Mojo - What is it Missing?

Musings on Mojo - What is it Missing?

In the crowded space of modern programming languages, newcomers like Mojo have generated significant buzz by promising …

The Case for Actor-Oriented Architecture

The Case for Actor-Oriented Architecture

This entry examines the architectural rationale behind avoiding the creation of yet another managed runtime system, …