Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04jun2008
5 salts from around the world, can I have fries with that?
Group Theory and Machine Learning, a talk by Imre Risi Kondor. “The use of algebraic methods—specifically group theory, representation theory, and even some concepts from algebraic geometry—is an emerging new direction in machine learning. The purpose of this tutorial is to give an entertaining but informative introduction to the background to these developments and sketch some of the many possible applications, including multi-object tracking, learning rankings, and constructing translation and rotation invariant features for image recognition. The tutorial is intended to be palatable by a non-specialist audience with no prior background in abstract algebra.”
Why we skip Photoshop, Jason Fried explains.
Been walking all morning
Went walking all night
I can’t see much difference
Between the dark and light
And I feel the wind
And I taste the rain
Never in my mind
To cause so much pain
— Grateful Dead, Comes A Time
Counting Characters in UTF-8 Strings Is Fast, Kragen Sitaker says.
Yeti is ML style functional programming language, that runs on the JVM. Has tail recursion, lazy lists, OO by polymorphic structure types, first class scopes, and an interesting syntax.
Real Education Reform, by yuo. “Instead of school, send children to day-care when they’re young and let them do whatever they like as they get older. Our responsibility as adults is to provide them whatever they need, be it tools, places, clubs, encouragement, classes, better games, or whatever.”
HVD Comic Serif, a great free Comic Sans alternative. Lovely.
Indeterminacy, short stories by John Cage. Highly recommended.
Reia is a Python/Ruby-like mixed-paradigm language targeting the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) and high-performance native compiler (HiPE). Reia aims to expose all the features and functionality of Erlang in a language more familiar to programmers of scripting languages, while improving string handling, regular expressions, linking with external libraries, and other tasks which are generally considered outside the scope of Erlang.
Now what’s to found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues, and trying to lose
You ain’t going to learn what you don’t want to know
— Grateful Dead, Black Throated Wind
A planimeter is a table-top instrument for measuring areas, usually the areas of irregular regions on a map or photograph. They were once common, but have now largely been replaced by digital tools. Awesome tool.
Tom Waits True Confessions, a conversation with himself.
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