Fully Distributed Representation (PDF), by Pentti Kanerva. “It is shown how the information of a conventional record with fields is encoded into a long random bit string, or a holistic record, that has no fields, and how the fields are extracted from the holistic record. It is argued that holistic representation should be used in modeling high-level mental functions.”
Comme Appelé du Néant—As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck: Part 1, Part 2 (PDF).
It’s the same story the crow told me
It’s the only one he know —
like the morning sun you come
and like the wind you go
Ain’t no time to hate,
barely time to wait
Wo-oah, what I want to know,
where does the time go?
— Grateful Dead, Uncle John’s Band
Pure is a modern-style functional programming language based on term rewriting. It offers equational definitions with pattern matching, full symbolic rewriting capabilities, dynamic typing, eager and lazy evaluation, lexical closures, built-in list and matrix support and an easy-to-use C interface. The interpreter uses LLVM as a backend to JIT-compile Pure programs to fast native code.
Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and keys can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements. Replication and other interesting features are a work in progress.
Fluid Grids, by Ethan Marcotte at A List Apart. Pretty cool if you don’t mind calculation.
人はいさ
心も知らず
ふるさとは
花ぞむかしの
香に匂ひける
— 紀貫之
Rack Middleware at Railscasts.
Kaiten sushi time in real Japan, just put the camera on a Sushi conveyor belt!