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
May 21, 2009 • 7:34 am 6
Read this on Jonathan’s blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world
Its a great idea, no doubt. Just 11 years too late for Windows 98 – Long after people abandoned writing lousy desktop applications with ugly AWT or less ugly Swing. This time around Sun has a new secret weapon: JavaFX. But why would developers abandon Flash, AIR, Silverlight, OpenLaszlo, XUL and jump to a new platform ?
January 19, 2009 • 3:42 am 4
Spending weekends in Dublin when it rains is a mind-numbing proposition unless you like getting wasted, stoned or like to hit on random members of the other sex at so called “Traffic Light Parties”. A random flipping through the Martin Gardner at the Book Store led to an Archimedean Moment – The Straightedge and Compass Enthusiasts Club (SECE).
Filed under: Computer Science, Mathematics, Rants
January 2, 2009 • 3:00 am 0
For someone not used to literate programming, CWEB is a pain in the ass. But the dataset that comes with GraphBase makes up for it. Please make CWEB half as much fun as your datasets Don Knuth.
For the illiterate:
Of course the author does not pretend that the location of “highlights” in da Vinci’s painting, one per row and one per column, has any application to art appreciation. However, this program does seem to have pedagogic value, because the relation between pixel values and shades of gray allows us to visualize the data underlying this special case of the assignment problem; ordinary matrices of numeric data are much harder to perceive. The non-random nature of pixels in a work of art may also have similarities to the “organic” properties of data in real-world applications.
(From graphbase/assign_mona.w)
Filed under: DEK, Programming, Rants
July 12, 2008 • 4:55 am 17
Its all true ! Google is the most incredible place to work in. Dublin is insanely expensive to live in. The Sun (Celestial object, not my former employer or the British tabloid) behaves crazily at 50 degree north. And there are no snakes on this island !
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