Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27sep2007
Idea: The Histogram as the Image, neato.
OMeta: an Object-Oriented Language for Pattern Matching, by Alessandro Warth and Ian Piumarta: “This paper introduces OMeta, a new object-oriented language for pattern matching. OMeta is based on a variant of Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs)–a recognition-based foundation for describing syntax–which we have extended to handle arbitrary kinds of data.” Sounds pretty cool.
The Matrix Cookbook, a free mathematical desktop reference on matrices. Useful!
In the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
— Bob Dylan, Chimes Of Freedom
The Factor project switches to git, yay.
Wahlcomputer ausgemustert: Niederlande wählt wieder auf Papier, “Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet”.
A Simple File Based Wiki in Seaside, nice.
A low-bandwidth, high-latency, high-cost, and unreliable data channel, storing metadata in the cent values of credit card bills. WJW and lovely hack.
Pascal Implementation: A Book and Sources, “Included here is the Pascal source of a public-domain Pascal compiler and interpreter, the P4 compiler and interpreter. It is coded entirely in Pascal, and produces a high-level so-called intermediate code as output. The program ‘pint’ is an assembler and interpreter for this language.”
And let’s face it – do you really want the bright sparks who work there now, and manage to break lots of perfectly good working code – rewriting the core calculating engine in Excel? Better keep them busy adding and removing dancing paper clips all day long. — Joel Spolsky, Explaining the Excel Bug
RubyForge vs RAA, by Daniel Berger. “This is a short followup to my last post where I compared library RubyForge statistics against CPAN. This week I compare RubyForge against… the Ruby Application Archive!” Would be nice to see more international action at the RAA.
The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design, “how do you test private methods?”
Huge pipes in the middle of the ocean, “James Lovelock – of Gaia hypothesis fame – has recently proposed using “millions of vertical pipes across the oceans to pump nutrient-rich deep water to the surface.” This would “fertilise the growth of algae, which in turn [would] fix carbon dioxide” – thus helping to assuage the effects of industrial air pollution, reducing global warming.”
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