Project Doris

Aug 19, 2008

Project Doris Project Doris is actually the name of a programming language -- actually it's three programming languages. I suppose some explanation is in order. A History of Project Doris It's probably wise to begin at the beginning. Right after obtaining my undergraduate ...

Notes for Ficciones

Aug 15, 2008

front Ficciones Chesterton, Dequincey's Writings, Rosae Crucis, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Achilles and the Tortoise, Baudelaire, Heliogabalus, Babylon lottery and Butter, Liar's paradox, Ab aeterno, Torpid, Latin, Berkeley, History of Caesar, God's secret name?, Timeless Way of Building, JHVH, Koran II:261, Judas back Alasdair Gray, Lanark Elizabeth Taylor, ...

Moleskine notes for July 2008

Aug 4, 2008 one comment

Java left fold Using Functional Java public static <A, B> A fold(F<A, F<B, A>> f, A z, Iterable<B> xs) { A p = z; for (B x : xs) { p = f.f(p).f(x); } return ...

Confessions of a textual loser

Jul 23, 2008

Confession I have tried to write my own text editor. I succeeded, yet failed. Lame I mean really... who the hell, in this modern day and age, writes their own text editor?1 Additionally, when said text editor is written, who the hell writes ...

The Earth vs. Soup Mission Statement

Jul 23, 2008 some comments

Goal Write with the full knowledge that what I write has no influence over anything. Goal Write as if I were reading the blog. If I post something that I wouldn't read during a random internet stumble, then I fail. Goal No one reads this blog, ...

Broccoli v0.2.2 (bellwitch)

Jul 22, 2008

Finally got around to wrapping up the second iteration of Broccoli. Most of the work was put towards changing the syntax. That is, I originally went with a Lispy syntax filled with parentheses to one where different symbols are used ...

Notes for “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”

Jul 18, 2008

front The Man Who Loved Only Numbers aleph-null, aleph-1, logarithms and Richter, elementary number theory, unit fractions, The Art of Counting, twin primes, number roundness, Ramsey Theory, friendly numbers, perfect numbers, Mersenne primes, 4th dimension relatively prime, partitions, Smith numbers, Ruth-Aaron pairs, combinatorics, The Revolt of ...

Notes for “Why I am not a Christian” by Bertrand Russell

Jul 16, 2008

In a nutshell ((Richard Dawkins + Christopher Hitchens)/2) - Bluster = Russell Notes front Why I am not a Christian by Russell First causes, J.S. Mill autobigraphy, natural-law argument, 2nd law of thermodynamics, Spaniards in Mexico, argument from design, excuses for pain and suffering, dashing baby brains, ...

Moleskine Notes for April 2008

Jul 16, 2008

While Reading Steve Yegge Read the book, Patterns of Software. Read about the Emacs/XEmacs schism and Lucid Inc. Is Emacs too far along to take a commit from the likes of me? I almost forgot about James Clark's nxml-mode! LLVM While reading Bill Clementson I have very little (read: ...

Moleskine Notes for May 2008

Jul 16, 2008

Broccoli v0.1.2 released Thinking about Scala Scala at the core allows mutable and immutable objects based with the following observation: Objects can be mutable or immutable. The latter is preferred when it’s possible, since it needs no concurrency control. Also, these days it’s ...

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