Anarchaia

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

27feb2008

The K5 Gaming Platform: Abusing Kuro5hin’s Comment System, by yuo. “With the recent changes to Kuro5hin, most turn-based games of complete knowledge can easily be played directly in the comments.” Whee.

Trsly lets you keep track of your favorite quotes and snippets from around the web.

On Git, koz: “So naturally I’m interested in migrating rails from subversion to git, as are the rest of the core team. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as running git-svnimport and updating some webpages.”

Urchin_ST941 by Trish Graf

My shame is complete, yay for monadic FizzBuzz!

Don’t try to save me
try to save me
try to save me
try to save me
With your midas touch
that you planned for me
that you planned
— Rubicks, Midas

GitHub: My Kind of Social Software, by Ryan Tomayko. “Forking on GitHub is like friending on Myspace (or Facebook or whatever crazy ass social networking site that is) inasmuch as this is the point where a line is drawn from one node to another in the social graph.”

Apple bumps MacBooks, adds Penryn MacBook Pros with multi-touch, nice.

Uniquely-decodable codes, Mark Dominus: “Ricardo J.B. Signes asked me a few days ago if there was a way to decide whether a given set S of strings had the property that any two distinct sequences of strings from S have distinct concatenations.”

Ultrafractal by artica1

Pure, Declarative, and Constructive Arithmetic Relations, by Oleg Kiselyov, William E. Byrd, Daniel P. Friedman, and Chung-chieh Shan. “We present decidable logic programs for addition, multiplication, division with remainder, exponentiation, and logarithm with remainder over the unbounded domain of natural numbers. Our predicates represent relations without mode restrictions or annotations. They are fully decidable under the common, DFS-like, SLD resolution strategy of Prolog or under an interleaving refinement of DFS…”

Ach komm
Oh komm
Komm mit
Ins Wasser
Weil du
Und Sex
Und Wasser
Das schönste was es gibt
Wenn du mich im Wasser liebst
Das schönste was es gibt
Wenn du mich im Wasser liebst
— DAF, Sex unter Wasser

Protecting Journalistic Integrity Algorithmically, John Wiseman got code to detect the “copy brush”. Very cool.

dahingeschmissenes, Lydia mal wieder.

Top Ten Percent, how to find the top N percent items of a set.