Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I just released version 0.2 of the Haskell text library that I announced back in February. This version fixes a number of bugs, but much more significantly, it adds a streaming mode: you can process a huge amount of text lazily using a small, fixed amount of memory, while maintaining high performance. In case you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31st, 2009 No Comments »
ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming http://www.defun2009.info/ Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3 and 5, 2009 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html Important dates Proposal Deadline: June 5, 2009, 0:00 UTC Notification: June 19, 2009 DEFUN 2009 invites functional programmers and researchers who know how to solve problems with functional [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1st, 2009 No Comments »
I think that this video is remarkably beautiful. SCINTILLATION, by Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Here’s a wonderful excerpt from a book review written by Daniel Dennett, in which he paraphrases Rapaport on how to argue constructively. Serious argument depends on mutual respect, and this is often hard to engender when disagreements turn vehement. The social psychologist and game theorist Anatol Rapoport (creator of the winning Tit-for-Tat strategy in Robert [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. Tip of the hat to Quinn.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I just read some notes from an entertaining talk (one that’s surprisignly accessible, even if you’re neither a computer scientist nor a string theorist) that Scott Aaronson recently gave at Stanford, and came across this gem: But what could NP-hardness possibly have to do with the Anthropic Principle? Well, when I talked before about computational [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20th, 2006 No Comments »
“Uh oh. I’ve drawn the attention of the shetland pony riders of the apocalypse.”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4th, 2006 No Comments »
I was shocked to read this evening about a local family that became snowbound for days in the mountains of southern Oregon; three of the four family members were rescued this afternoon. (This has apparently been big news around here, but I’m afraid I don’t follow the local news much.) The husband, James Kim, left [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1st, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve used blosxom for a few years to manage my blog, and while I appreciate its simplicity and “Unix nature”, it’s not actually very usable. It’s difficult to extend; the code is impenetrable; and it’s been orphaned by its author, who has gone on to better things. For example, as I couldn’t find a simple [...]
Posted in software, Uncategorized on November 8th, 2004 No Comments »
I stumbled out of bed at 4am this morning, and bleared my way onto a two-hop flight from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, to start getting ready for this year’s Supercomputing Conference. So far, my seven-hour experience of Pittsburgh has been mixed. On the one hand, the weather was beautiful today, and the Best Festerin’ that [...]
