Well, it is day 300 of my 101 goals in 1001 days. So as per meta-goal 101 “Do 100 day updates” here is a quick report on my progress. Completed 66 - Via Feratta in Italy 85 - Visit Pergamon Museum 1 - Teetotalitarianism for 3 months 2 - Cheeseless for »
I really enjoy the work of Jorge Luis Borges. If you have not heard of him, check out In Our Time - Borges. I found some audio of some wonderful lectures on poetry he gave at Harvard in the late 60s. The interesting thing about them is that he composes »
I am reading through SICP with some of the guys in work and got to a bit that fascinated me and reminded me of my previous life as a mathematician. The basic data structure in Scheme is the cons cell, essentially representing a ordered pair. So > (cons »
A few weeks ago I went to see Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess Theatre in London with some friends. I use “with” in a weak sense as as ever I was running late and had to get a jog on to arrive something like on time, just arriving as it started and pleading »
I was looking at this article (The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes / PDF) about a common functional prime number generator that is mistakenly called the Sieve of Eratosthenes. It is quite complicated, section 2 deals with the performance of the naive algorithm »
I have been meaning to learn ruby for a while and the place I am working now uses a lot so I had another look at it. I read Learn To Program, a simple but good book and found the bit on blocks and procs etc pretty good and wanted to see if I could do »