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November 21 2008
November 19 2008
Checking out openkapow ( openkapow.com ) and Yahoo! Pipes ( pipes.yahoo.com/... ) for yet another uni assignment.
November 17 2008
“ Bill Joy was brilliant. He wanted to learn - that was a big part of it - but before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be expert. ”— Extract from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: Is there such a thing as pure genius?
November 16 2008
November 15 2008
Lispy Fibber
Inspired by this conversation and the genius SICP video lectures I've come to tinker a bit (last night, that is) with how it can be done in Lisp/Scheme (as an ancestor of JavaScript mainly for its functional programming capabilities) efficiently.
fibber.scm:
Exemplary DrScheme interaction with that:
fibber.scm:
;;; Computing and displaying a certain
;;; amount n of Fibonacci numbers.
(define (fibber n)
(let loop ((i 0) (current 1) (next 1))
(if (or (not (integer? n))
(<= n 0))
(display "Amount must be an integer and at least 1.")
(if (= i (- n 1))
(display current)
(begin
(display current) (display " ")
(loop (+ i 1) next (+ current next)))))))
Exemplary DrScheme interaction with that:
> (fibber 17)
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597
November 14 2008
Ad reactions vs. comments
Well, it would definitely work for me.
“ The key of understanding complicated things is to know what not to look at and what not to compute and what not to think. :-) ”— Gerald Jay Sussman @ SICP video lecture 1b
“ I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. ”— Alan J. Perlis
Enjoying SICP video lectures and Lisp/Scheme. hauptuni.at/...
November 12 2008
“ Anyway, the next time you have a few spare minutes, grab that old copy of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, and start applying some of your lifelong knowledge of the written word to programmable code. They're two very different things, but beneath the differences, at the level of conceptualization, and in the serial process of actually cranking out individual lines of code, very much the same. ”— The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White - Coding the Wheel
“ There's plenty of information out there about how to write code. Here's some advice on how to delete code. ”— Ned Batchelder: Deleting code
November 11 2008
November 10 2008
Experimenting a bit with Piggy Bank ( simile.mit.edu/... ) and Chickenfoot ( groups.csail.mit.edu/... ) for a course assignment. #studies
November 09 2008
That's the result of asking my girlfriend if she would "face my manga" for fun.
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