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Function Identities

May 31, 2011 some comments

One of the first features one will encounter when exploring Clojure (and most Lisps that I am familiar with) is that its arithmetical operations can take any number of arguments. (+ 1 2 3 4 5) ;=> 15 This feature is very convenient, but if you are a tinkerer then you may quickly encounter something […]

BookPr0n 0: Gregory Chaitin’s Algorithmic Information Theory

Dec 19, 2008

In a (hopefully) ongoing series of blog posts named BookPr0n, I will highlight and briefly describe some interesting and (at times) obscure books that I come across. The books will tend to be technological in nature, but not exclusively so. The first in the series is the first book published by the immortal Gregory Chaitin […]

Notes for “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”

Jul 18, 2008

front The Man Who Loved Only Numbers aleph-null, aleph-1, logarithms and Richter, elementary number theory, unit fractions, The Art of Counting, twin primes, number roundness, Ramsey Theory, friendly numbers, perfect numbers, Mersenne primes, 4th dimension relatively prime, partitions, Smith numbers, Ruth-Aaron pairs, combinatorics, The Revolt of the Angels, continuum hypothesis, inaccessible cardinals, Monty Hall dilema […]

Linkage 2007.02.14

Mar 14, 2008 one comment

On continuations<br/> Search and don’t replace<br/> Beware of AJAX<br/> Some developers view AJAX view as the silver bullet for every scenario. However, AJAX introduces its own set of hazards in various areas, which include: development time, browsing history and experience, search engine interaction, accessibility, server load, and security. Debian Timeline<br/> C.S. Math @ OCW<br/> Strategy […]

Linkage 2008.03.03

Mar 3, 2008

Zed: You used Ruby for what?<br/> JPC<br/> Clojure data structures<br/> Random Numbers: Nothing Left to Chance<br/> At first glance, it may seem like a simple thing to generate random numbers. In fact, you may think that humans could do this easily by, for instance, just writing sequences of 0’s and 1’s in a stream of […]

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