Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29sep2007
A kleptocracy is a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population.
Witnessing Side-Effects, Tachio Terauchi and Alex Aiken. “We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with “witnesses,” which is based on an arguably more pragmatic motivation than past approaches. We give a semantic condition for correctness and prove it is sufficient.”
Z-A (cont’d.), wow.
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side.
— Bob Dylan, With God On Our Side
Star Wars viewing order, discussion at kottke.org.
Virtual Slide Rule, still the best way to learn how logarithms work.
Rubinius Sprint Interview, Pat Eyler interviewed Evan Phoenix, Wilson Bilkovich, and Brian Ford.
SMLtoJs (pronounced “SML toys”) is a compiler from Standard ML to JavaScript, which allows programmers to enjoy the power of Standard ML static typing, higher-order functions, pattern matching, and modules for programming client-side web applications. Yay!
Seemingly impossible functional programs, by Martin Escardó. “The first program, due to Ulrich Berger (1990), performs exhaustive search over the “Cantor space” of infinite sequences of binary digits.”
Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin, does content-aware resizing for the GIMP. Sounds awesome.
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