Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14mar2007
Today is π-Day!, enjoy
Independence, entanglement and decoherence with the quantum monad , more Haskell magic.
CruiseControl.rb is a continuous integration tool. Its basic purpose in life is to alert members of a software project when one of them checks something into source control that breaks the build. Rails-based and from ToughtWorks.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
— Bob Dylan, Blowin’ In The Wind
Virb puts all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. A tasteful MySpace? Neato.
Second OpenBSD remote hole in more than a decade!, Pwned!
High-Rise, about tower demolition, not 37signals.
bubbl.us is a collaborative brainstorming and mindmap application that uses Flash and has a really good interface. Well done! (Export is coming soon, I hope it will do XOXO.)
Sidewards expansion, awesome pencil carving.
Myths, GUID vs Autoincrement, yeah, primary keys better be random.
And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free,
Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire.
— Bob Dylan, Caribbean Wind
Let free music files ring, thanks, rms.
Top 5 Things That Should Be Taught In Every School, I completely agree.
2000 Years and the Spread of Religion, “an interesting attempt at showing the spread of today’s religions over Eurasia.”
The self-organizing map (SOM) is a subtype of artificial neural networks. It is trained using unsupervised learning to produce low dimensional representation of the training samples while preserving the topological properties of the input space. This makes SOM reasonable for visualizing low-dimensional views of high-dimensional data, akin to multidimensional scaling.
Death and Passion, James Britt stepped down being the editor-in-chief of Ruby Code & Style, but he says it will live on.