Monthly Archives: August 2006
Become One With Google
Quiet A.I. I think this will be the way A.I. ultimately sneaks in to everyday life. It’s already happening on the web. But this response on kuro5hin is a fair warning. Choose carefully what you feed your digital “children”!
Ruminations on Planet Lisp
To clarify for some respondants to Voted Off the Planet: As far as I know, the decision to remove my blog from Planet Lisp was not made collectively by readers but solely by the site’s maintainer. As is apparent from … Continue reading
Literally Literal
This is just an random idea that popped into my head. Tell me if I’m crazy. Is there enough distinction between literals in code and values generated at runtime? In other words, what should be the difference between this: x … Continue reading
The Shape of Math
Consider the following simple bit of mathematical notation: the TeX code that draws it: \sqrt[4]{\frac{x^2+1}{x-1}} and the same thing in an S-expresion syntax like Common Lisp: (exp (/ (+ (exp x 2) 1)) (- x 1)) (/ 1 4)) and … Continue reading
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