Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01sep2007
A new representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic, by E. C. R. Hehner and R. N. S. Horspool. “It allows exact arithmetic, and approximate arithmetic under programmer control. It is superior to existing coding methods because the arithmetic operations take particularly simple, consistent forms. These attributes make the new number representation attractive for use in computer hardware.”
NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently. WJW and wanthave.
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the sea
— Leonard Cohen, Take This Waltz
Lifting Abstract Interpreters to Quantified Logical Domains, by Sumit Gulwani, Bill McCloskey, and Ashish Tiwari. “In this paper, we describe a general technique for building powerful quantified abstract domains that leverage existing quantifier-free domains.”
Python 3000 released as 3.0a1, Guido van Rossum says. The snake is winding again.
Emacs now has multi-tty in CVS HEAD, very nice.
Scaling with memcached, slides by Leon Brocard.
But I’m always alone.
And my heart is like ice.
And it’s crowded and cold
In My Secret Life.
— Leonard Cohen, In My Secret Life
A trellis.Component is an object that can have its attributes automatically maintained by rules, the way a spreadsheet is maintained by its formulas. I should check that out.
Emacs Fingers, cool illustration.