Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

07oct2007

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science, by Dijkstra.

Y&Y TeX was donated to the TeX Users Group (http://tug.org) by Blenda Horn, one of Y&Y’s founders. Per Blenda’s wishes, TUG has now released the sources under the GNU GPL. Short documentation and other ancillary files are under an all-permissive license, since they could be useful to excerpt in other projects. Cool!

First Snow close-up by Little C Knits

Computer Power, by Karl Hartig. “The charts on the right track the power of Intel Corp.’s microprocessor chips from 1971 to 1997. The chart along the bottom and up the right side shows a 27-year perspective.”

And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.
— Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence

A Prayer for Archimedes, “A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.” Eat that, Newton!

Blind signatures, abstract algebra and cryptography playing together is fantastic.

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser, not a bad idea, but a system that wakes up in 5s is just better.

The Fall of Man (GIF).

For the Freelance Assassination of the Burmese Generals, by circletimessquare. Revolutionary: “We have universal consensus that violent action on the Burmese Generals is valid and just and required, earnestly. Well, why can’t the Internet serve as the clearinghouse for organizers, bypassing governments and the UN?”

Picture 047 by thelsdj

It’s Time to Stop Calling Circuits “Hardware”, by F. Vahid. FPGA ahoy!

I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells,
I’d taken the cure and had just gotten through,
Stayin’ up for days in the Chelsea Hotel,
Writin’ “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for you.
— Bob Dylan, Sara

Geometric Representation Theory (Lecture 1), by John Baez. “This fall, the so-called Quantum Gravity Seminar at U. C. Riverside will actually tackle geometric representation theory – the marvelous borderland where geometry, groupoid theory and logic merge into a single subject.”

Censored 2008, The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006–2007.