Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29may2008
Conway’s Game of Life in one line of APL, I like.
Does a working writer keep improving?, worth a read for everyone.
The npthread library interface, by D. J. Bernstein. Pure genius.
Summertime in the heat
Summer dive in the sheets
Waterslide into me
Come closer
— Veruca Salt, Closer
OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There (PDF), by Stavros Harizopoulos, Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden and Daniel J. Abadi. “[…]we look at some interesting variants of conventional database systems that one might build that exploit recent hardware trends, and speculate on their performance through a detailed instruction-level breakdown of the major com- ponents involved in a transaction processing database system (Shore) running a subset of TPC-C.”
Cities and Ambition, essay by Paul Graham.
Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just for computer scientists. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability. IMO an extremely important skill for the future.
She’s like Heroin to me
she’s like Heroin to me
she’s like Heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein
— The Gun Club, She’s Like Heroin To Me
Peak Water?, USA is the first place, but the next few are interesting.
Exploring the Regular Tree Types , by Peter Morris, Thorsten Altenkirch, and Conor McBride. “In this paper we use the Epigram language to define the universe of regular tree types—closed under empty, unit, sum, product and least fixpoint.”
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