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During the program life a programmer team possessing its theory remains in active control of the program, and in particular retains control over all modifications. The death of a program happens when…
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It is a misconception, based on the stereotype of a Turing machine as executing a prearranged program one step at a time, to assume that Turing believed that any single, explicitly programmed serial p…
Random Art
(Made with ArtRage on an iPad)…
Monthly recap: December 2015
What a month ... and what a year! Big highlight of the month was Tara's first birthday party, which somehow went off better than I had expected (I plan not to have any more big birthday parties u…
Personal Media Summary: November 2015
November was a very happening month, media-wise. We spent a week in London, during which we made an unplanned visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and I found it uninteresting except for a couple…
When Ginsberg sold clothes
Came across this ironic contrast recently, through the miracle of the internet. A poster being sold on eBay, "pinned" by someone else on Pinterest, in turn scraped by Google Image search, sh…
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To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some mean…
Monthly recap: November 2015
November was a happening month: It ended with Tara turning ONE, and began with a week-long trip to London. The plane ride was a long-ish one (and clearly the last time we're going to travel withou…
Peak Experience ...
The Blockchain ...
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no one had penetrated the mysteries of eval and applybut the flaw remained in the jewelwhy on earth call it a functional language? Why not just base everything on FEXPRs and force evaluation on the re…
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Moore’s Law has reduced the cost of computers so much that programming is suddenly the limiting reagent in nearly everything in the economyAnd that’s the origin of “software engineering” https://news…