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Streaming Unicode support for Haskell: text 0.2
I just released version 0.2 of the Haskell text library that I announced back in February. This version fixes a number of bugs, but much more significantly, it adds a streaming mode: you can process a huge amount of text…
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DEFUN 2009 call for talks and tutorials
ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming http://www.defun2009.info/ Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3 and 5, 2009 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html Important dates Proposal Deadline: June 5, 2009, 0:00 UTC Notification: June 19, 2009…
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Scintillation
I think that this video is remarkably beautiful. SCINTILLATION, by Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.
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Anatol Rapaport on argument
Here’s a wonderful excerpt from a book review written by Daniel Dennett, in which he paraphrases Rapaport on how to argue constructively. Serious argument depends on mutual respect, and this is often hard to engender when disagreements turn vehement. The…
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Give a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a day
Set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. Tip of the hat to Quinn.
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Scott Aaronson on computational complexity and the anthropic principle
I just read some notes from an entertaining talk (one that’s surprisignly accessible, even if you’re neither a computer scientist nor a string theorist) that Scott Aaronson recently gave at Stanford, and came across this gem: But what could NP-hardness…
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Upon being found by the kids
“Uh oh. I’ve drawn the attention of the shetland pony riders of the apocalypse.”
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Every parent’s nightmare
I was shocked to read this evening about a local family that became snowbound for days in the mountains of southern Oregon; three of the four family members were rescued this afternoon. (This has apparently been big news around here,…
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