Anarchaia

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

01feb2006

Ohrenschmalz-Unterschiede entschlüsselt, also meins ist klebrig. (Jaja, zuviele Details, ich weiß.)

Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming, by Shannon Behrens. Featuring monads in Python and JavaScript.

Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders, Steve Krause compares.

Wauw by angeliek vermonden

Radio Ga Ga, Thomas Crampton wonders whether MP3 killed the radio star? Don’t the stations in question have webcasts?

Slowing Down—Learning how to think by Heather Lang. Take your time. :-)

Although she swore my life away
Deprived me of my rest
Still I love my faithless Flora, the lily of the west.
— Bob Dylan, Lily Of The West

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a method for unsupervised learning, based on a grid of artificial neurons whose weights are adapted to match input vectors in a training set.

Early Retirement by Philip Greenspun. “Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren’t that organized, disciplined, or motivated.”

Thou Shalt Not Draw, Denmark Threatened by Islamofascists over cartoons of the prophet. They clearly are not nice, but obviously satiric. (Do you think we could discuss that on Fugi?)

Nial Open Source Project, Nial is an offspring of APL. (But where is the source? :/)

Why are we so loyal to a particular Programming Language?, Dan Zambonini wonders. Why are most people monogamous? (And does being a language freak make me polyamourous?)

Desert Planet, se{a,e} the sand.

lava fields moon from car roof by Archer's Eye

Banging on blocks of data, Dan Sugalski on vector operations. In the end, lots of open questions.

Champagne Prototyping, a Research Technique for Early Evaluation of Complex End-User Programming Systems. By Alan Blackwell, Margaret Burnett, Simon Peyton Jones. Highly nifty.

U: Definition, this document defines the U function and its data model. Dig it?

So now I’m goin’ back again,
I got to get to her somehow.
All the people we used to know
They’re an illusion to me now.
— Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue

Trio, a System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage.

Ezra’s Where Plugin is Out, a DSL for SQL queries on RedHanded.

Obliq: A Language with Distributed Scope, I somehow like it. (But would prefer Erlang in real-life.)

MLB Using RSS for Product Placement, Joanna Hicks thinks it’s a bad idea, and so do I.