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by mtraven 15y ago
Been done and a long time ago: see Boxer: http://www.mathedpage.org/t-and-m/turtle-and-mouse.html Not to mention the BioBike VPL: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/suppl_2/W28 Not that there's anything wrong with reinventing the
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by mtraven 15y ago
Hm, if you believe Bruce Sterling the place is due to become a hotbed of hacker and alternative culture: http://books.google.com/books?id=M2OpTnzs2PMC&q=chattano... Someday.
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by mtraven 15y ago
It is what governments are for, but given the current spectacular failures of government, quasi-monopolistic corporations that can afford it might as well take on some of their functions. There's a tradition of plutocrats contributing in th
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Cray is still around and moving to Big Data world(geekwire.com)
1 points by mtraven 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 15y ago
Jeeze, this is a great resource, why all the nitpicking? Thanks to Jeff Huang for assembling it.
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by mtraven 15y ago
You might want to look over some of the frankly racist and reactionary stuff on Charlton's blog before buying into this simplistic thesis. Or the story about how he got fired from the editorship of his flaky pseudoscience journal: http://s
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by mtraven 15y ago
Try Common Lisp in your browser: http://nostoc.stanford.edu/Doc/demointro.html
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by mtraven 15y ago
Agreed, but the post didn't do that. It painted a pretty accurate picture of VCs as people with a big pile of money that they want and need to turn into more money. About the only thing I found objectionable is the equation of "changing the
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by mtraven 15y ago
Still waiting for a REPL that could what Lisp Machines could do in the early 80s -- namely integrate graphics with object-specific behavior. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Mana
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Occupy Computation(omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
8 points by mtraven 15y ago|1 comments
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by mtraven 15y ago
I took a try at a theory of this: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-engineers-... Short summary: it's due to the historical intermediate and uncertain class status of engineering as a profession.
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by mtraven 15y ago
Perhaps the explanation is in this Bruce Sterling story: http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/taklamakan.txt
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by mtraven 15y ago
Or http:://marginize.com , whatever happened to that?
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by mtraven 15y ago
Well, there's http://arxiv.org . And of course, anyone can put anything they want on the internet, which is a form of publishing into the public domain. If you mean, publish in such a way as to get read and become part of the academic lit
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by mtraven 15y ago
Many things can be usefully represented by graph structure, and RDF is a way to do that (a verbose and clunky way, but better than no standard at all). Whether social relationships are one of those things is a separate question.
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by mtraven 15y ago
It's not a question of whether they have friends or not, it's whether they are nerdy enough to imagine that the idea of friendship can be captured by a simpleminded data structure. (And yeah, not all nerds would actually believe this). It'
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by mtraven 15y ago
I'm all for billionaires using their money to fund research, but that NRO article was so bad that I question his judgement. 1) I don't know what tech slowdown he's talking about. The cost of genome sequencing is falling at faster-than-Moore
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by mtraven 15y ago
Hm, and just a few weeks ago Thiel was predicting the "end of the future": http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-pet... Bipolar much?
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by mtraven 15y ago
Here lies a Lisper / Uninterned from this mortal package / Yet not gc'd / While we retain pointers to his memory
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by mtraven 15y ago
Amazon's not a middleman? Of course they are, they just happen to be the biggest one, capable of eating all the others.
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by mtraven 15y ago
I founded the unix-haters mailing list that the book was based on, and these days I like to say that Unix went from being the worst available operating system to the best available operating system without getting significantly better. (and
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by mtraven 15y ago
Didn't this fork happen quite some time ago? http://www.opensource.org/ And for pretty much the exact same reasons being given now? Although some of the people behind that are almost as embarrassing to be associated with as RMS.
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by mtraven 15y ago
See also http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/doom_eng.htm
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by mtraven 15y ago
Looks really interesting, but seems limited (maybe wisely) to analytic philosophy. There is a whole strain of work from the 80s that was partly inspired by Heidegger and phenomenology AND the realization that some classical AI problems were
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by mtraven 15y ago
Overdesign alert. How about the OS adopting the convention that any codes outside of a few trusted (expected) alphabets get displayed in a way that makes it obvious to a human that they aren't what they look like (eg, a bright red border or
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by mtraven 15y ago
There have been Common Lisp and Scheme implementations in the JVM for ages (Kawa, ABCL, and many others -- I wrote one myself called Skij). It's not clear to me why Clojure took off when those others didn't. But if reinventing Lisp is what
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by mtraven 15y ago
Doesn't ITA count? (Powers Orbitz, acquired by Google for a fairly significant amount of money). Also see here: http://www.franz.com/success/
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by mtraven 15y ago
I TA'd 6.001
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by mtraven 15y ago
Think of it as a toolkit rather than a complete platform. Nothing against Weblocks, but when I evaluated it (some time ago) it seemed to want to take over the application architecture. WuWei is more lightweight, providing tools for doing t
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by mtraven 15y ago
Allow me to flog WuWei, http://wuwei.name , a toolkit for doing Ajax web UIs in Common Lisp, now in production use on http://biocyc.org .

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