Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22apr2007
Theseus and the Zipper, functional programming in old Greece.
Algebraic Geometry, 227 pages CC lecture notes by J. S. Milne.
Dual numbers are a particular two-dimensional commutative unital associative algebra over the real numbers, arising from the reals by adjoining one new element ε with the property ε2 = 0.
He said you are my Earth girl
You are my Earth girl
You are my Earth girl
You are my Earth girl
— Dan Bern, Earth Girl
Guantanamero, a song by RMS.
YEurope is like YCombinator for European startups. And it’s just around the corner. ;)
xmonad: a tiling window manager, version 0.1 has been released.
The JANE Guide to Breast Health: Perfect Breasts, NSFW.
Self-referential pizza formula, WJW.
Esotouric does Bus Adventures into the secret heart of LA. “Our routes veer off into fascinating, neglected neighborhoods. Our expert guides are passionate, brainy and hilarious. Our tour themes are provocative and complex, but never dry, mixing crime and social history, rock and roll and architecture, literature and film, fine art and urban studies into a simmering stew of original research and startling observations.”
It was that summer
We started feeling older
Played more ball
Drank more beer
Sat out by the pool
Talked about Gorbachev
We talked about second hand smoke
We talked about whether we belong in Saudi Arabia
— Dan Bern, That Summer
From abstract interpretation to small-step typing, “A program denotes computations in some universe of objects. Abstract interpretation of programs consists in using that denotation to describe computations in another universe of abstract objects, so that the results of abstract execution give some informations on the actual computations.”
Why don’t namespaces support DTDs?, by Michael Day wonders. Why are there people that still use DTDs, I wonder.
Discovering drawing, Joi Ito starts drawing. Reminds me that Feynman painted, too.
Solar Organ / Sky Piano, “Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun’s atmosphere behave like a musical instrument,” the BBC reported yesterday.