Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13aug2007
ThingDB, a semistructured database layer.
Manticore is a heterogeneous parallel programming language aimed at general-purpose applications running on multi-core processors. Manticore supports parallelism at multiple levels: explicit concurrency and course-grain paralellism via CML-style constructs and fine-grain parallelism via NESL/Nepal-style data-parallel arrays.
Somebody is watching you
Eat and drink and be of cheer
The sky has eyes and the walls have ears
Somebody somebody is watching you
— Dan Bern, Somebody Is Watching You
Wikidbase is an idea that – as the name sugests – combines the functionalities of a database system and a wiki web application. Apps like this are the future.
An incunabulum is a book, single sheet, or image that was printed – not handwritten – before the year 1501 in Europe.
Generational Real-time Garbage Collection: A Three-part Invention for Young Objects, by Daniel Frampton, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, and David Grove. “We present the design, mathematical model, and implementation of our collector in IBM’s production Real-time Java virtual machine, and show both analytically and experimentally that the collector achieves real-time bounds comparable to a non-generational Metronome-style collector, while cutting memory consumption and total execution times by as much as 44% and 24% respectively.” Hot.
We sold it to the people of Kababa
For the Berlin wall and all the tea in China
For the gross national product of America
For the cash crop of North Carolina
Back when the earth had two moons
— Dan Bern, Kababa
Acoustic Planetology, “There’s a great new article in New Scientist about what the surfaces of other planets – with their variable air pressure and chemical humidities – might actually sound like.”
Lisp Machine operating system with complete source code leaked , now where do I get an Alpha…
North Shore is a mix of mountain biking and a roller coaster, in the woods.
Realistic or Abstract Imagery: The Future of Computer Graphics?, commented slides by Patrick Hanrahan.
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