Anarchaia

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

15oct2007

Why everyone should know number theory (PDF), by Minhyong Kim. “Pythagoras’ dictum that ‘all is number’ is well-known. But my impression is that even practicing mathematicians are often not entirely aware of the thoroughness with which we have developed this very idea over the centuries in the formation of our world-view, from the evolution of the cosmos to the structure of elementary particles, and even in attempts to describe the ultimate nature of human consciousness.”

Top Down Operator Precedence, by Douglas Crockford. That’s the way to implement custom operators!

Oroba Tunnel in Salah Salem Road [Cairo] by KoRaYeM

I can feel it in the air
Feel it up above
Feel the tension everywhere
There is too much blood
Too much blood, well alright
— Rolling Stones, Too Much Blood

Kiva: The Power of Small, by xC0000005. “With $25, a paypal account, and a desire to do some good Kiva connected me to this man in Senegal and in doing so revealed the power of small. Kiva itself is a front, a sort of backing bank for agencies that offer microloans. A microloan is a loan in an amount that normal banks don’t traffic in. A loan with a term so short normal banks don’t deem it worth their time. A micro-loan can also be the key to change.”

A generic library for SAT problems (PDF) with Higher-Order Unit Testing, by Oliver Kullmann. The source is not yet available (but apparently will be), and I’m sure we can learn lots from it.

by *嘟*

MLgraph: A library to produce images in Caml, “This library has been designed and implemented by Emmanuel Chailloux and Guy Cousineau to produce images of PostScript quality. It is available for Caml Light and Objective Caml.” Sounds good: “Starting from elementary graphisms corresponding to elementary objects, one builds more complex graphisms using graphical combinations of these objects. To program these constructions, it is very natural to consider images as values and graphical combinations as functions.”

Got to be an important person to be in here, honey,
Got to have done some evil deed,
Got to have your own harem when you come in the door,
Got to play your harp until your lips bleed.
— Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You

Van der Waerden’s problem: programs 3 and 4, by Mark Dominus. Also featuring embarrassing C macros.

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