Anarchaia

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

29jun2006

Tutorial on Geometric Programming, by S. Boyd, S. J. Kim, L. Vandenberghe, and A. Hassibi. “A geometric program (GP) is a type of mathematical optimization problem characterized by objective and constraint functions that have a special form.”

Google Checkout, a new payment system. “Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout.” Doesn’t seem to encourage private transactions.

IMG_3483 by conrado4

Title-free, reinventing the tumblelog? ;-)

I’m ahead, I’m a man
I’m the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I’m at peace with my lust
I can kill ‘cause in God I trust, yeah
It’s evolution, baby
— Pearl Jam, Do The Evolution

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing, do the evolution. Impressive and probably painful.

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees, reviewed by Cameron Laird. “To carry a copy of Generating All Trees with you is likely to elicit more suspicion among some managers than if they noticed pornography on your desktop.”

Flash to the Rescue, by Jason Levitt. No, no, NO!

mkrf 0.1.0 Released, the rescue is near, no more mkmf! Very cool and very useful.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Nilpferd? Gibt keinen, an Land und im Wasser geht es.
Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Krokodil? An Land geht es, im Wasser schwimmt es.
Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Krokodil und einem Nilpferd? Beim Krokodil gibt es einen Unterschied, beim Nilpferd nicht. — Fritz B. Simon

Try Ruby in Second Life, hail to the bot.

Laws of Form: An Opinion, wondering “is this a crackpot book or not?” Sounds very interesting nevertheless.

What is it? by ~JB~

Where the hell is Matt?, he’s dancing all over the world!

/var/www, Dave ist virtuell umgezogen und jetzt Ubuntu-Fan.

Etna is an open Source XML Editor built on Mozilla’s core, Gecko. It uses some RelaxNG schema to edit and validate XML Documents.