I had the chance to meet Richard Stallman on Friday. He was speaking at the NA-CAP conference at which I volunteered. All in all, very interesting, and last night I ended up joining the FSF.
Call Stallman what you will: ideological, dogmatic, unwavering, stubborn, whatever. You have to give it ...
read the whole post »midterm report for the erlang-in-lisp google summer of code project.
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I’m enjoying morning courtesy of my friend Keith Folsom (also notice the witty mug my mother gave me). Keith roasted some beans in his popcorn-maker sized roaster and ground them up for me yesterday. The results are fantastic! Watch out Metropolis, the Folsom Coffee Company is coming!
read the whole post »Presentation software is linear; presentations are non-linear. Most of my ‘presentations’ are in the academic setting where I either lecture or give an overview of a project I’m working on. In either case, it is useful to evaluate the attention and interest of the audience and alter the presentation ...
read the whole post »A few weeks ago I decided that I’ll be off to Indiana University in the fall to start a phd program in computer science. I’m very excited about the program, and I’m also excited about living in Bloomington. It seems like a great little town (that’s ...
read the whole post »Riding my bike 600 miles from Chicago to Saint Louis.
read the whole post »Palindromes on twitter.
read the whole post »The ping-pong example is working with one caveat. Matches against patterns with just one atom must still be wrapped in a list. This is annoying, but we can fix it.
This first step happened a bit more slowly than I’d like, but I can see where we’re going ...
read the whole post »We’ve created an ETL Yahoo pipe that aggregates the content of members’ blogs tagged with ‘etl.luc.edu’. What I’m wondering is how quickly the pipe gets updated, and where things get cached along the line…
read the whole post »A simple visualization using matplotlib of the data contained in the racial and ethnic survey administered to CPS students.
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