'Tis be the last week of summer, and while the term winding down can only loosely apply to work, everything else certainly is winding down. As I write this, vast portions of my life are beginning their slow journey toward Rhode Island, vast bureaucratic machines on both coasts are coming to life and dealing with the things they need to deal with before I can leave, and I am rapidly becoming more distracted. Six days from now I shall be in one of those long metal tubes hurtling at immense speeds towards another ocean. Some day soon, I shall write more about this summer and being here, but for now, the summer's ending.
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Earlier today, thanks to Itay, I was introduced to the idea of parser combinators in conjunction with a discussion we were having. From what I understood (hence not misrepresenting anyone), he knew of parser combinators from Scala, where they are a part of the standard library, of course my customary Google search of new terms [...]
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This is one of two or three short posts I will be making today, and will as such probably never be seen as a result of not actually having visible text for very long. A casual glance through programming.reddit.com will show a recent surge in interest in Software Transactional Memory. Having missed most of the [...]
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It is fairly well known that I don’t like Java nearly enough, too much of it bothers me. I no longer walk around making claims about the superiority of other languages, time has shown me that this would be oversimplifying facts. This is not a post about my feelings on Java, I could talk about [...]
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Edit: Now updated with link to picture This has been bothering me since yesterday, and were it not for people in the CS department e-mailing me stuff, it would still bother me. Nothing very deep about this, but it’s an interesting difference in notation. Yesterday afternoon, EAS, my cubemate, was looking at a Facebook photograph [...]
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