Running with Zippers

Interesting discussion about the situation of functions and methods in Scala. Yes, they are different, mostly because of JVM interoperation.

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

Cool Scheme interpreter written in J. Via anarchaia.

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.

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

It’s today. If you can get to their server, that is.

A seemingly interesting connection between functional programming and databases.

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

Third post by Conal Elliot on derivatives. See also Beautiful differentiation and What is a derivative, really?

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

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.

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.