October 15, 2009 • 8:24 am 2
I am in the middle of rethinking my personal research and to that end debating about how much of my current reading list I should stick to. Here is what I have planned for the next couple of months:
Filed under: Books, Computer Science, DEK, Google, Mathematics, Rants
October 11, 2009 • 4:34 am 8
I have been looking at various options for learning a new secondary programming language (Primary still being “C”) in the past few weeks. The main intent is having a lot fun, exploring new concepts and maybe switch to it in the very distant future. Python was a LOT of fun, powerful, partly gives me a day job and so on, but I haven’t been able to do anything profoundly new with it in the last few months. I have looked at Erlang, Haskell and Scala so far (Functional Programming and Concurrency were big motivators).
Filed under: Computer Science, Programming
August 17, 2009 • 2:01 am 1
It might not be a theory of consciousness involving microtubules and pink butterflies – But I recently chanced upon Godel Machines which might very well be a way to make your own version of Skynet at home.
Filed under: Computer Science
June 9, 2009 • 2:40 am 2
Yuri Gurevich from Microsoft Research [1] gave a very erudite and somewhat interesting Google Tech Talk on the Church-Turing thesis today. The reward for patiently listening to a poor video quality H.323 session across the Atlantic at midnight was the discovery of something totally new: Abstract State Machines.
Update (The Video is Up):
Filed under: Computer Science, DEK, Humor
April 27, 2009 • 2:17 am 2
Doug Hofstadter might find it amusing. But I find it incredibly annoying that when I want to read news online, I see news about news or media reporting about media or celebrity gossip about media celebrities. Talk about self-serving institutions. Being very interested in Statistics, all this recent Trash-Talk about Television ratings for the Indian Premier League got me interested in the methodology used for measuring TRP ratings.
Filed under: Computer Science, General, Mathematics
Google Reader Items
Recent Comments