Kleinberg on the Structure of Information Networks
Friday, August 31st, 2007Looks like a very cool course---certainly has a fascinating reading list.
Archive for August, 2007
Looks like a very cool course---certainly has a fascinating reading list.
Python 3.0 alpha 1 now out
Friday, August 31st, 2007After last week's sprint at Google, the first alpha of Python 3.0 is available. This is the release that breaks backward compatibility in order to get rid of some warts---not enough and not enough for some people, but it's still a big step forward for the languages. Kudos to all ...
Summer 2007 Post Mortem
Friday, August 31st, 2007We held the post-mortem for the summer's projects yesterday. It went well---the summer, I mean, not just the post-mortem. Here are the main points: Good Bad Industry/prof visits Learned a lot (group work) Learning the internals of a large system Making friends Excellent office space Learned that software engineering can actually be interesting Doing something new (building ...
Random Survey about HPC
Friday, August 31st, 2007This was just forwarded by a friend: The High Performance Computing (HPC) community is initiating a study to develop education and training pathways in order to enable scientists and engineers to advance the pace of discovery by taking advantage of high performance computing (HPC) and grids. In order to inform our study, ...
Back Yard Beautiful
Friday, August 31st, 2007Just in time for the fall, we have a spiffy new back yard.
DemoCamp 14 Update
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007David Crow has posted an update on the status of DemoCamp 14 (Sept 17, downtown, registration free but required). It looks like a cool lineup of demos, and yours truly will be giving a five-minute talk on Beautiful Code. Hope to see lots of you there...
The Friends of the Merril
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007The Toronto Public Library's Merril Collection is the largest circulating collection of science fiction and fantasy in the world. The Friends of the Merril are having a flea market on Saturday, Sept 8, at the Toronto Reference Library. Bring your own shopping bags... ;-)
Seven Right, One Very Wrong
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Paul Graham recently posted a piece titled "Holding a Program in One's Head". His argument is that, "...it's only when you have the code in your head that you really understand the problem," which I agree with. He then goes on to list eight things you can do to ...
The Sunlight Foundation and Hosted Lifebits
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Jon Udell has posted a conversation with Greg Elin about the Sunlight Foundation, whose goal is to make the workings of government more transparent and accessible. Interesting quote from Elin: I increasingly feel that the reason for Congressional hearings to be open and recorded and annotated is market efficiency. The ...
Diagram of Relationships Between Programming Paradigms
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Via Lambda the Ultimate, this very cool diagram of how different programming paradigms build on one another.