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Notes from Underground: Software Tardigrades

Mar 8, 2024

Cryptobiosis is a peculiar state of biological organization Automatic bug repair and LLMs Tardigrades and foreign DNA Sussman’s “Evolvability and Robust Design” and the Art of the Propagator. Also look at Sussman and Hanson’s book Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner. Deep Specification :F

The best things and stuff of 2016

Dec 29, 2016 some comments

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2016. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Great blog posts read AlphaGo under a magnifying glass – In a year filled to the brim with garbage news and […]

A Christopher Hitchens Bookshelf

Dec 16, 2011 some comments

As you may already know, Christopher Hitchens passed away today. Among his many attributes, I most admired his love of the written form. Over the years I’ve built a list of books recommended and written by Hitchens and while I’ve yet to read even a third, the eventual goal is to read them all. Of […]

Moleskine Notes December 2008

Dec 30, 2008

CLIPS Here’s how hash tables work for a simple rule. (defrule example (point-1 ?x) (point-2 ?x) =>) Let’s say you’ve got facts (point-1 1) through (point-1 100). When these facts are asserted, they’re stored in a hash table for the pattern (point-1 ?x) based on the value of ?x. If (point-2 53) is asserted, the […]

Moleskine Notes for Oct. 2008

Nov 3, 2008

fogus.jaka – Jaka – Closure – Continuation – Environment – Function – Type – Kernel – Repl – Pair – Lambda fogus.jaka.meta – Mop fogus.jaka.types – Atom – Integer – Float – Symbol fogus.jaka.comp – Compiler Originally you choose one of three doors which have equally randomized probabilities. You have on average a 1/3 chance […]

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