Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08apr2007
Fisher’s method is a data fusion or “meta-analysis” (analysis after analysis) technique for combining the results from a variety of independent tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis as if in a single large test.
Scribes and Programmers, an analogy by Ravi Mohan.
One time Johnny tried LSD
Had a great revelation, but he
Found he couldn t put it into words
So he started drawing pictures of birds
With ten eyes
Men with 50 arms
— Dan Bern, Runaway
cyberbullying, danah boyd says: “i’m unbelievably frustrated by how most of those adults emphasize the CYBER rather than the BULLYING. It’s as if the internet is the cause of the bullying. The internet does not cause bullying, but it does MIRROR and MAGNIFY bullying.”
Instant ratings, nice JS thingy, but then, I dispise rating.
Jumping Around: My Inevitable Demise, by Robert Deaton. Oh I know that…
XCL is a new, native-code CL implementation that features a kernel written in a very restricted subset of C++ and an optimizing compiler, written in Lisp, with backends for x86 and x86-64. Nifty, nifty.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released, this is Etch! Gratulations to the team and everyone involved.
And the world turns
Everything goes round
And the prostitutes
Swing around and round
— Dan Bern, I Don’t Know Who I Am
Cforall extends the C type-system using overloading, parametric polymorphism, and type generators. This would be really cool if it was a preprocessor.
Yesno is an inconsistent and complete programming language, and that every program returns a value. Take that, Gödel!
Jaiku vs Twitter, Joi Ito on the difference. I’m fully satisfied with Twitter, I just wish I could send SMS for free.