Anarchaia

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

05jun2008

Yang’s Iris Illusion (SWF), really impressive.

Empire (PDF, 1.3 MB), etext of the book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. “Empire is the political subject that effectively regulates these global exchanges, the sovereign power that governs the world.”

trousered spotaflump by goopymart

Bead sort is a natural sorting algorithm. WJW.

Poetry has died, asphyxiated by metaphors. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Feynman-Platz, eine inoffizielle Bezeichnung. Es geht um einige Münchner Straßen, die ein Feynman-Diagramm bilden: Die lokale Straßenführung stellt den Compton-Effekt dar. Brilliant!

Implementing a high-performance Smalltalk interpreter with genbc and genvm (PDF), by Paolo Bonzini. Interesting tools, would be neat to see the final list of opcodes, though.

10 Gegenthesen zu 10 Thesen zur digtalen Zukunft, von Felix Schwenzel.

Mapping dryness, “The Sahara, you could say, is spreading north.”

Metagene is a program transformation tool which simplifies the development of such programs. Due to the similarities between C++ meta-programming and functional programming, the input language of Metagene is an ML language. Given a functional input program, Metagene outputs the corresponding C++ meta-program expressed using class templates. Whoo.

circus lizard by goopymart

Treelets: An Adaptive Multi-Scale Basis for Sparse Unordered Data (PDF), by Ann B Lee, Boaz Nadler, and Larry Wasserman.

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.4311

Natasha, an unknown short story by Vladimir Nabokov.

WWDC 2008 keynote bingo, by John Siracusa.

NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases (PDF), by Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, and Yuan Wang. “Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an active environment, they need to be able to support millions of queries due to the scale of the Internet.”