Introduction Today, I want to talk about something I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while. Specifically, I want to mention some realizations I’ve had about restrictions-as-strengths as it relates to programming languages. This blog post was so long in coming in part because I had conflated that issue with a desire to [...]
It’s time to post on something other than code for a change. The last time I posted something non-technical was a music-related post in mid-April. I’ve had a strong urge lately to say something about this blog’s title, “Improved Means for Achieving Deteriorated Ends”. I’ve never really explained what that means to me before. It [...]
Every now and then I see, hear, or read something that sets my brain on fire. I find some connection that I didn’t notice before and go off exploring. It happened a week or two ago over lunch at work. Occasionally there are lunch meetings around work-related activities that you can voluntarily attend. This particular [...]
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*References: http://redline6561.livejournal.com/155783.html http://david.navi.cx/blog/?p=136 http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006626.html http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/05/02/what-does-cyber-revolt-look-like/ http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/wikipedia_locks.html Preface: I feel I should explain a bit about why the events of May 1st were so important, why it was as I called it “a watershed day”. Since I wrote that piece this afternoon the events covered have been very much in my thoughts and I’ve discussed them [...]
It’s very strange to think that I won’t be writing more Core papers next year. It’s strange to think I’ll be playing with computers full time. This paper, for it’s part, is at last finished. Feel free to R&R. Kant’s Categorical Imperative has gone missing. The notion suggesting that one “Act only according to that [...]
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Here rests my first Historical Perspectives paper for the awesome Dr. Maher. I realize that it probably sucks on the ground of academic writing but I’d be very interested in any thoughts anyone has on any of it’s contents particularly the last three paragraphs or so. It goes without saying that a central concern of [...]
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Edit: This is actually the question of whether or not understanding can yield advance. That is, if we understood what composed elements of a future which hadn’t yet occurred, could we bring it about in a non-iterative (or markedly less iterative) way? From Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri: Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. [...]
Warning: This article in no way intended to be rigorous or academic. These are unsupported observations of my just-won’t-shutup mind. I just read a Slashdot article which predicts that Vista will be the last Windows of it’s kind. It is referencing a Gartner Group report that states that the growing complexity of Windows will force [...]
1). Sonya called from Pakistan today. For those of you who don’t know, Sonya is the wonderful girl i’m dating who left for Pakistan last saturday and will not return until August 29th. She has a cell phone there and if I get phone cards i’ll be able to contact her. This is more than [...]
At last we arrive at the question of the future. The present holds, as any does, a plethora of trends and fads along with the paradigm shifts and sea changes whose harbingers will ride the next wave of success. Of these, Google seems to be the most oft suggested and they are popularized by the [...]