Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12aug2007
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the greatest activity between August 8 and 14, peaking about August 12. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. It’s a bit too cloudy today…
DiST: Fully Decentralized Indexing for Querying Distributed Multidimensional Datasets, by Beomseok Nam and Alan Sussman.
Beginning Faking It, a gentle introduction to type-level programming by Uktaad B’mal.
I thought of friends from years ago
In a youth I’d thrown away
And a girl who used to love me so
Though I couldn’t recall her face
— Thin White Rope, The Ghost
How well do you know prototype, “or taking advantage of those extra 100 KB in your page.”
First Look: VIA PX10000 Pico-ITX Motherboard, 10x7.2cm! Awesome.
The Road to Clarity, Joshua Yaffa on highway typography.
Distributed karma, an idea for fixing recommendation systems. This could work out.
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures, WJW.
Guess it’s the sun that shrink
The houses and the streets of the town
Especially my house, which used to have
these hidden lands
— Thin White Rope, Hidden Lands
A History of Erlang (PDF), HOPL-III slides by Joe Armstrong.
Type-level programming involves calculations that are done during compilation time while type-inferring/type-checking.
On Pattern Matching, Patrick Logan acknowledges the usefullness of pattern matching, especially for Erlang. I fully agree, I now consider it an essential feature for a practical(!) language.