Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28mar2006
The Hasty Pudding Cipher is a variable length block cipher. The block size may be any number of bits, even fractional bit values are permitted. The arbitrary block size means that anything can be encrypted without expansion.
More sneak previews of Volume 4, Knuth put up “Pre-Fascicle 0c: Boolean Evaluation”. Enjoy.
PPI Refactoring Editor, read what’s up with the Perl refactoring editor.
The LibXDiff library implements basic and yet complete functionalities to create file differences/patches to both binary and text files. The library uses memory files as file abstraction to achieve both performance and portability.
Fast Times at Phillips 66: The Hooker, by osm. “The station was a freak magnet. The police used our station to fuel up, so we got a lot of good stories from them too.”
Elegance in cipher design is a trap to be avoided. — Richard Schroeppel
Student tries to spend spring break at Wal-Mart, WJW.
A Marriage of Convenience: The Founding of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, by Stefanie Chiou, Craig Music, Kara Sprague and Rebekah Wahba. Highly interesting under the aspect that the non-AI things developed there were far more important.
The World’s Most Maintainable Programming Language: Part 1, by chromatic. Bah, you just need to find good maintenance programmers.
A Haskell bookshelf at programming musings. I should count how much I read already.
Druid Street got a whole domain on its own, nice. (Early versions used to be on Backpack.)
The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters, did you know Lex Luthor was Nietzschian atheist?
Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!, the biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived.
Keep your classes subclassable!, good hint, Daniel.
Version X, MacDara Conroy completes the redesign. Very nice!
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
— Stanisław Lem, Love and Tensor Algebra
Oh Nice, Mongrel Gets Real Money, sponsorship sounds like a good open source development model to me. ;-)
High CPU Utilization in Dapper, by Jeremy Jones. Interesting bug: “The problem is in the 686 kernel and can be resolved (hopefully only temporarily) by reverting to a 386 kernel.”
Thanks, guys!, “Anarchaia is in sailing terms, my starboard and my port.”
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