I saw Simon Peyton-Jones talk on Software Transactional Memory at OSCON and was amazed at how neat it sounded. Taking some ideas from databases to remove some of the pain of multithreaded programming is a great idea. His point that a thread-safe Dequeue »
At the weekend I went to see the Tutankhamun and Qin Shihuangdi exhibits in London. Tutankhamun is at the O2 (formally millennium) Dome and Qin Shihuangdi is at one of my favourite places in the world, The British Museum. Both are superb, well worth a »
That used to be my opinion, I thought philosophers had nothing to say on the subject, until I read an essay by Daniel Dennett called Where Am I? . Dennett’s thought experiment shows that the sense of self we have arises in a large part from viewing the »
You are singing the song that goes “I got love for you if you were born in the 80s” and your girlfriend (who was born in 1979) says “what, no love for me?” and you reply “actually what I said does not imply that at all, you cant just negate both sides »
If you have not seen it, go and checkout the OLPC project. Technologically it is superb: The screen is revolutionary, having two display modes (a 800x600 colour display mode and a 1200x900, 200DPI black and white mode that can be used in direct sunlight »
I posted last time about TeXmacs and remembered the plugins for using it to display output from some of the superb free maths packages (which sometimes lack a nice display). The one I am excited about most is for SAGE. SAGE is written in python and leverages »