Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20feb2007
java2python translates Java to Python.
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design, by Tantek. Very good.
My Evolution as a Haskell Programmer: Factorial with Arrows, yum.
The Official God FAQ, I couldn’t resist posting that one.
Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods
You gotta meet me by the fall down tree
Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid
And I know they’ll come lookin for me boys
— Tom Waits, Get Behind The Mule
Intermission over, Audrey is back to Pugs. Yay!
The Design and Implementation of a Dataflow Language for Scriptable Debugging, by Guillaume Marceau, Gregory H. Cooper, Jonathan P. Spiro, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Steven P. Reiss. “Debugging is a laborious, manual activity that often involves the repetition of common operations. Ideally, users should be able to describe these repetitious operations as little programs. Debuggers should therefore be programmable, or scriptable.”
A new proof that the square root of 2 is irrational, great.
Stream Copy YouTube, Revver, Etc., more drawn code by _why.
Never had no destination, could not get across.
You became my inspiration, oh but what a cost.
‘Cause every time I hear that melody,
well, something breaks inside,
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining,
is more than I can hide.
— Tom Waits, Grapefruit Moon
A Noogler’s View of Google, by Steve Yegge.
The Essence of Quantum Computing, “A popular view of quantum computation is that its power (at least the power of certain well known quantum algorithms) derives from a form of parallel computation coming from the fact that the state of a quantum computer can be a superposition of many classical states. I want to argue that this is in fact a bit of a red herring because there are other models of computation that allow formal superpositions and yet clearly don’t provide a form of parallel computation.”