Running with Zippers

Aug
15th

Fri

Nabble - What's the difference between functions and methods? Interesting discussion about the situation of functions and methods in Scala. Yes, they are different, mostly because of JVM interoperation.

Jul
6th

Sun

Logic File System Experimental semantic file system that allows navigation through different dimentions and logic queries.

Jul
3rd

Thu

Scripts/Scheme - J Wiki Cool Scheme interpreter written in J. Via anarchaia.

Jun
24th

Tue

LHCountdown Counting the days to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And maybe to the end of the world… in this case it’s a pity we should die without seeing the end of Lost.

Jun
20th

Fri

Kilim Concurrency on the JVM gets more interesting. See also the comments on reddit.

Jun
17th

Tue

Firefox Download Day 2008 It’s today. If you can get to their server, that is.

HiBase: A Persistent Functional Programming Environment A seemingly interesting connection between functional programming and databases.

Types Considered Harmful Interesting presentation by Benjamin C. Pierce. Contracts are quite fashionable now. Worthy commentaries at Lambda the Ultimate, as always.

Jun
14th

Sat

Higher-dimensional, higher-order derivatives, functionally Third post by Conal Elliot on derivatives. See also Beautiful differentiation and What is a derivative, really?

Jun
13th

Fri

Sauvé Li Qing Song emmené dans une ambulance après 4 jours sous les décombres.

Tripping with Jeff Warren Bookslut has an interview with Jeff Warren, author the excellent The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness (…) It sounds like a recipe for disaster on the surface - a guy writing about his altered states charted on a self-invented ‘wheel of consciousness’ - but it’s scientifically thorough, philosophically engaging and avoids every cliché you think it might throw up.

May
29th

Thu

El asombro de ‘Akira’ Pero yo pienso que si Kubrick ha sido elevado a los altares por su concienzuda elaboración técnica, más aún debería ocurrir con un tal Katsuhiro Ôtomo, que justo 20 años después estrenaba la adaptación de su propio Manga.