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Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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19dec2005

EmPy is a powerful and robust templating system for Python. Somehow has a cute syntax.

Undisciplined? Please Stop Writing Software, Obie Fernandez says.

landing
landing by Welington Cruz

Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers is David A. Black’s book to appear in April 2006.

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14:41 <mfp> analysis of Ruby code using the entropy rate of a first oder markovian process over the token types as an estimate of the lexical complexity
14:42 <chris2> woow
14:42 <chris2> are you bored, somehow?
14:43 <mfp> I just like information theory

Drop the DOCTYPE, Tim Bray says. Hell, yeah, let’s kill DTDs.

The Probabilistic Age on The Long Tail. Somehow I can perfectly (no pun intented) live with that.

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
— Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Google Introduces Google Middle Earth, Google Mapping Program Towers Above The Rest, nifty, nifty. :-)

Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates. And there was much rejoicing.

Computing a Glimpse of Randomness by Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, and Chi-Kou Shu. “[…] In particular, every Omega number is strongly noncomputable. The aim of this paper is to describe a procedure, that combines Java programming and mathematical proofs, to compute the exact values of the first 64 bits of a Chaitin Omega.”

The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.

How complex is your Ruby? Time for some lexical variability analysis, Mauricio Fernandez applies markov-chains to your Ruby code! (And gives hints how to increase complexity ;-))

SAMSON
SAMSON by getapardo

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, that project made a big leap since the last time I looked at it.

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21:42 <vruz> it's like chris2 tumblelogs a 90% of what I'd would talk about, without me doing any effort :-)
21:43 <vruz> (being a great part of the remaining 10% the stuff about Bob Dylan :-P
21:43 <vruz> hehehe
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22:18 <Aria> [14:18:16] Vruba says "You can tell chris2 he has sound taste in music."

A linux driver for the Broadcom 43xx wireless chip, a.k.a Airport Extreme! Sounds great. More info.

Tables with style on 24ways. Pretty nice.

Roomba Serial Interface API, you wouldn’t think they still used serial ports in 2005.

It’s a long road behind me
It’s a long road ahead
If you follow every dream, you might get lost
If you follow every dream, you might get lost
— Neil Young, The Painter

Making Holiday Mailings More Efficient by Chris Josephes. Bah, stick them all into Bcc:, done!