May 2008
3 posts
January 2008
3 posts
Not A David Lynch iPhone Commercial | Laughing... →
A succint commentary on the limitations of handheld multimedia devices.
Urlenco.de →
R. Tyler. He’s getting fancy.
October 2007
5 posts
Tigers & Strawberries →
Very nice food blog. I’ve only started digging in, but Barbara seems to be pretty sharp.
The Universe of Discourse : Undefined behavior in... →
A very interesting, slightly rambling, discussion about “undefined behavior” and what it means in different situations.
The Jordan normal form and the Euclidean algorithm... →
Terry Tao is my new hero. Of all the things one might expect a world-class mathematician to blog about, it’s not Jordan normal form.
September 2007
17 posts
WatchOne of the most original works I’ve seen. Stunning technique. Alan Becker.
Aloof Architecture: Tweet If You're Human →
Good point.
iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot →
Automatically serves content optimized for iPhone viewing.
Clickable Map of Mathematics →
I had forgotten about this! An excellent resource.
RIP, Robert Jordan
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The Wheel of Time, hopefully, will remain unfinished.
A new calendar for a busy world →
Monday, Monday…
Ciaran’s Random Writings » Blog Archive » A... →
Labnotes » CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS →
Twitter / meangrape: EVDO and the Borg. →
A classic moment in my life immortalized forever.
August 2007
46 posts
The Geomblog: Parallel algorithms: A resurgence ? →
Advanced Scenario Modeling →
It’s not what you think, you nerd.
Is the Multi-Core Revolution a Hype? | Thinking... →
My favorite blog for concurrency / parallel programming issues.
Totally necessary product alert: Windex... →
Candice gives germophobic Americans the whatfor while managing not to call anyone a motherfucker.
LaTeXiT / skitch demo [AVI] →
It’s a 15Mb download — though it does come with a soundtrack by Jeff Buckley — that shows a simple use of LaTeXiT and skitch. Highly useful.
Scaling with MySQL, a brief guide. | unethical... →
One of the most concise, yet most helpful, guides to scaling large webapps on MySQL. Way to go, Tyler!
Installation and Configuration Sun Cluster Data... →
I really need to start surfing something other than technical websites.
T2 Crypto -- accelerator details →
Sun is really taking the lead in commodity hardware parallelism. I want 20 of these.
Failing Genius →
Crocodile Song
Little crocodile, swimming in the Nile
Hippos on the bank / Go and play a prank
Bite them on the nose / Nibble on their toes
Little crocodile, why don’t you smile?
Anna Karenina →
Tolstoy might just barely make my top five list of favorite Russian authors, but _Anna_Karenina_ is a masterwork.
Erlang, the next Java →
Towards efficient, typed LR parsers | Lambda the... →
“The LR parser generators that are bundled with many functional programming language implementations produce code that is untyped, needlessly inefficient, or both. We show that, using generalized algebraic data types, it is possible to produce parsers that are well-typed (so they cannot unexpectedly crash or fail) and nevertheless efficient. This is a pleasing result as well as an...