Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02may2007
sary is a suffix array library and tools. It provides fast full-text search facilities for text files on the order of 10 to 100 MB using a data structure called a suffix array. It can also search specific fields in a text file by assigning index points to those fields.
The Copeland-Erdős constant is the concatenation of “0.” with the base 10 representations of the prime numbers in order. Its value is approximately 0.235711131719232931374143…
Group Asks Congress to Adopt Five-Day Weekend, I support this!
Ruport in 10 minutes, an introductory comic!
Wolfram Reinvents Mathematica, quite impressive new things in Mathematica 6.
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history. — Bright Eyes, Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved)
REST, as in Take It Easy, a tutorial by Tim Bray.
Method Cache Hacking in SBCL. “This cache is basically an open hash-table specialized to be keyed by lists of classes.”
Paradoxes of the Continuum, Part II, “For the secretive Pythagorean Brotherhood, who believed that reality was simply numbers, mathematics was worth killing over.”
BREAD IS DANGEROUS !!!, “More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.” Yum.
Slingshot is there. “We will be releasing the source code for Slingshot next month (June, 2007) under the GPL.”
The Monad.Reader Issue 7 has been published.
Geh’n wir mal rüber, geh’n wir mal rüber,
geh’n wir mal rüber zu Schmidt seiner Frau.
Geh’n wir mal rüber, geh’n wir mal rüber.
geh’n wir mal rüber zum Schmidt.
— Schmidt seine Frau
The architecture of solar alignments, the Chankillo ruins, near the Peruvian coast, made the news a few months back when they were discovered to be an ancient solar observatory.
Drug promotion and bribes, by sudogeek. “A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 94% of doctors take some sort of bribe from pharmaceutical companies. Many doctors argue that these considerations are harmless and that the voluntary controls currently in place suffice.” What should they say else?
The Open Sourcing of FLEX, Kurt Cagle comments. “The Open-sourcing of Flex represents a fairly dramatic shift in this particular struggle, one which will likely have ramifications lasting for years.”
Nordic Perl Workshop 2007, talks and slides are online. Worth a look.
Excessive precision, fun with units and Mark Dominus.
Math (Eww?), _why on teaching programming without arithmetics.
Three questions, by Richard Hamming. Very good.
Digging Deep: Evil packaging tricks with Ara, Gregory Brown interviews Ara T. Howard.
Komm zum Tannenzapfenzupfen in den Wald mit mir
Maria Luise!
Denn zum Tannenzapfenzupfen geh’ ich nur mit dir
Maria Luise!
— Die Jungen Zillertaler, Tannenzapfenzupfen
The Trivial Monad, a nice explanation of the basics.
Code As Data: Reflection in PHP, by Zachary Kessin. This is by far not as bad as I expected it.
The Heart of Try Ruby, epileptics beware!
Pallet is a Rakefile-based tool to easily build different package types (such as .deb, .gem) from the same source. Currently builds Debian packages and Ruby Gems, but is trivially extensible to provide support for other packaging formats (.tar.gz, .rpm, etc.).
Man frage nicht, was all die Zeit ich machte.
Ich bleibe stumm
Und sage nicht, warum
Und Stille gab es, da die Erde krachte.
Kein Wort, das traf,
man spricht nur aus dem Schlaf
Und träumt von einer Sonne, welche lachte.
Es geht vorbei,
Nachher war’s einerlei.
Das Wort entschlief, als jene Welt erwachte.
— Karl Kraus, Fackel #888
Pages in The Wiki containing “teach” in the title, a very good read.
Fluents: a Uniform Extension of Kernel Prolog for Reflection and Interoperation with External Objects, by Paul Tarau. “On top of a simple kernel (Horn Clause Interpreters with LD-resolution) we introduce Fluents, high level stateful objects which empower and simplify logic programming languages through reflection of the underlying interpeter, while providing uniform interoperation patterns with object oriented and procedural languages.”
Pig is Hadoop powered parallel processing system akin to sawzall, but made by Yahoo, based on relational algebra and BSD-licensed.
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