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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

A Bookmark

Mar 1, 2012 some comments

In my last post on reading I mentioned that I like to take notes while reading to help crystalize my understanding. Here’s how I take notes. My bookmark is my note-taking device. It’s a Moleskine Cahier plain notebook. It’s very thin and works pretty well to mark my page in most sized books. Moleskine also […]

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 […]

Moleskine Notes for Sept. 2008

Sep 30, 2008

DSL Language describing a scanner Language to create Word of Dog parser Goals for 2009 Emacs proficiency Read at least one Jane Austen novel Polyglot projects? 1802 emulator Maze generator WFE Elite Trader dnd Testing Haikeeba 3 import fogus.haikeeba.core._ val mv = Move.construct().from(‘d’,2).to(‘d’,4).build() mv.getFrom() == 51 mv.getTo() == 35 Ix Features? Traits (because sometimes inheritence […]

Notes for Lovecraft’s Library

Sep 12, 2008

Lovecraft’s Library Bierce In the Midst of Life, Can Such Things Be?, 21 Letters, The Monk and Hangman’s Daugther Bierstadt Dunsany the Dramatist Caesar Commentaries on the Cival War and Commentaries on the Gaelic Wars Eliot The Wasteland The Fantasy Fam magazine Lafcadio Hearn Kwaidan Poe Marginalia Tickner Poe’s Helen Edward White Andivius Hedulio -m

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