Monthly recap: January 2016
Can't believe the first month of 2016 is already over. The big highlight (for me) is that I started running again, trying to keep it once a week on Sunday mornings. The current goal is to do a 14…
Personal Media Summary: December 2015
A bunch of miscellaneous stuff, in no particular order ... * Two books on deep history that I added to my far-in-the-future reading list: "On Deep History and the Brain" by Daniel Lord Sma…
A rainbow to start the week
So this appeared when I looked out of a window today ...…
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Not standardizing what we build works in favor of both the programmers and the vendors. The former are in love with the delusion of creativity, while the latter deem it as a means to lock in clients…
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At the last StrangeLoop there was only one presenter from the pre-1980’s: Joe Armstrong. His talk? “We can do better” Everyone else’s talk? “How to optimize or manage this part of the stack to make yo…
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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…