Monthly Archives: June 2008
Lawyers and Engineers
Part of what I hope to do with the Program on Law & Technology at Columbia is bridge the communication gap between lawyers and engineers. The two groups think completely differently. To take a recent example, a new P2P file-sharing … Continue reading
Strange Referrers
The web is a strange beast. Server logs reveal just how strange. Someone’s crawling AltLaw.org, sending an HTTP Referrer of “http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-nero8-trial.php” with a User-Agent identified as “MSIE 5.00; Windows 98″. What the heck?
AI Lives!
Just when you thought the A.I. Winter would last forever, up pops Brainhat with an open-source inference engine that uses natural language as its primary interface. Cool!
Aesthetics
Finally, my blog has a new theme. I liked the old one, but it was getting a bit… old. And the serif-font-on-a-translucent-background-image was never a great idea. I didn’t have time for a complete redesign, so I settled on the … Continue reading
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Temptation
I need a new laptop. My current machine, a rebranded ASUS that I bought on the cheap a few years ago, has developed a crack in the screen hinge, so it’s only a matter of time. I have to admit, … Continue reading
More Clojure Love
I dropped by the Java Users’ Group meeting last week since Rich Hickey was there to talk about Clojure. I expected a bit of carping from the Java guys, and at first they were all “efficiency this” and “security that.” … Continue reading
JSON Is YAML
Cool fact: All valid JSON is also valid YAML. So any YAML parser can also parse JSON. Long live the mighty list/map data structure!
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