Isamu

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by Isamu 17y ago
Carter Bays spent some time looking for good 3D life rules - see his papers the Journal of Complex Systems. See also: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~bays/d4d4d4/ for a Java implementation
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by Isamu 17y ago
FAQs were very successful on Usenet and listservs, as evidenced by their enduring popularity. They served to pass along the accumulated wisdom of the newsgroup (even if they didn't eliminate the repeat questions.) But getting back to the ar
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by Isamu 17y ago
Check out Erich's comments at the end: > I'm in favor of dropping Singleton. Its use is almost always a design smell. YES. > Factory Method would be generalized to Factory. Yes. > The new members are: Null Object, Type Object, D
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by Isamu 17y ago
Warning - easy to lose track of time watching these. He is always terrific to listen to, or read.
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by Isamu 17y ago
I've been enjoying it since TECO EMACS on the DEC-20, so it's a bit depressing to me that still modern IDEs fall a bit short in basic areas (while adding their own nice features, it's true.) I know it's not easy to build a full-featured Em
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by Isamu 17y ago
See also: the classic Rogue-playing AI "Rog-o-matic" - http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/rogomatic.html (Rogue being the ancestor of NetHack)
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by Isamu 17y ago
Well said. While I love "The Elements of Typographic Style", I find there is plenty to argue with, even before dragging the advice to the web where it may not apply. For instance where Bringhurst gets hung up on a kind of Pythagorean numero
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by Isamu 17y ago
Is this somehow similar to compressed sensing, using a randomized basis to reduce the sampling rate / bandwidth?
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by Isamu 17y ago
This is a nice article about early communications using electrical circuits, but doesn't deliver on the promise of the title. For that I recommend "The Early History of Data Networks" by Gerard Holzmann ( http://spinroot.com/gerard/hist.htm