On Languages being all wrong
An extract from David Moon's presentation of "Lunar": Most current-day programming languages seem to be based on the idea that computation is slow, so the user and the compiler must wor…
Agam Brahma
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
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One of my favorite songs of Simon and Garfunkel was Scarborough Fair/Canticle I recently came across a song that clearly is the original It was interesting to listen to it, and contrast the lyrics,…
Presidential Bromance
A “blast from the past” 1 , that should feel quite surreal today. For any younger readers who are not familiar with the early 00s, this is George W. Bush, with Vladimir Putin, just two months after t…
Monthly recap: February 2024
Minor update(s) * Meeting a few people after a long time * Had a cold that lingered a long time (but, ended up having a few hot toddies for it) * Hiking in Sanborn County Park * A visit to half-m…
Shogun
Watched the first three episodes of this show, pretty good. I was unaware how much this was based on real events! Saw a review in the WSJ:…
Relax, UFOs aren’t real
What do I even make of this headline?! This would’ve been an Onion piece a decade ago. Still, good to know ……
Programming in “Thonny”
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We live in an age of abundance, in many respects. There are more ways to learn things than ever before. In my case, I was looking through options for my daughter to play around with. We previously…
Warfare as Reality Show
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I have been following the Russia-Ukraine conflict for several months now (not since the beginning, but since perhaps October 2022). The show I’m not going to get into the political who-did-what-and…
Songs of war, songs of life
Sometimes there’s a “just right” aesthetic about a piece of art. If you get it, you get it. It’s a gut level infantryman song. Obviously dated because it’s about events from over two decades ago.…
Making languages
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An excellent look behind the scenes, of fictional languages in popular works today. I've been curious about whether or not the new Dune movie would feature "the J-word", and looks like…
Roam and Raycast
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“Quick capture” is important, especially if you have too much of a “monkey mind”. I use Roam as a combination of bullet-journal, and thinking playground, but there can be friction in using it when no…
On heros becoming villains
It has been surreal to watch several of my early heroes become "villains" Matt Taibbi: got turned on to him after insightful reporting after 2009 (remember Goldman Sachs as giant squid) --…