Archive for April, 2005
Thursday, April 28th, 2005
On advice from Rob Harris, I went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unfortunately, I only had about an hour to visit, since the musuem doesn't open until 11:00 am, and I had a flight out in mid-afternoon. Still, it was a wonderful hour, well spent enjoying the gestalt of ...
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Sunday, April 24th, 2005
I've been in California for work, and I got to play a bit too--I sang at the first annual San Francisco Sacred Harp singing on Saturday, and I went to Yoshi's jazz club in the evening. At the Sacred Harp convention I met Mary McDonald-Lewis, who came down from Washington ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
Apex in tha house (created via HTTP in tha House).
variety of task
domains including those listed ask
developed by users
combines components yes
developed by users outside
on cognitive architectures qi
a more general airspace
definition language pdl see
were developed by users outside
building debugging analyzing knee
manual for more information what
apex vary ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
My Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
(via Mike).
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
While poking around as I created my previous post, I discovered that the LaTeX sources for printing algorithms in the style used in Introduction to Algorithms is available from Thomas H. Cormen's website. Below are examples of an insertion sort algorithm typeset using Cormen's style, and the same algorithm typeset ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
I had a small 'ah-hah' experience while reading Implementing sets efficiently in a functional language. Descriptions of binary tree sorting/searching algorithms, such as the excellent Introduction to Algorithms, state that items to be sorted have to be strictly ordered, which means you can't have duplicates in the tree. But this ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
Introducing Blendie. (via Language Log).
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
Interesting data from Consumer Reports (via kottke). Here's a CSV version of the data which you can import into Excel, etc.
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
If you're using a syndication service, the following links will provide an RSS 2 feed, an Atom feed, a Bloglines subscription page.
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Sword of Courteous Debate. Get yours.(But I'm a trinitarian).
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
As promised, a quick test of compressing the US Constitution to compare it to the compression rates seen by Jean Véronis for the European constitution. It's interesting to note that the compression ratio went down with the addition of the Bill of Rights. Not surprisingly, the other amendments have ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Jean Véronis describes an informal experiment in compressing different texts, including the European constitution. (Original in French, Auto-translated to English). He notes that normally, French texts compress at about 60-65% of the original, but the EU constitution compresses at about 75%. He puts this down to "jargon, puffery, redundancy..." in ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
Shriram Krishnamurthi, that bad boy of the Scheme community, announced today (April 1) that PLT Scheme plans on removing LAMBDA from PLT Scheme 3.0.So I posted this note:A group of us are pretty upset that the PLT Scheme Team has announced plans to drop LAMBDA from PLT Scheme v300. We ...
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