the activation record doesn't need to go in the stack!data structures are graphs ( Read more... )

things i've begun to grok this summer

Quotes about Operating Systems:In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. (Rear Admiral Grace Hopper ( Read more... )

so, i found something interesting in my econ book and i wanted to know if it was always true

notation
let [a,b] = the closed interval from a to b
let (integral r) phi = the integral over the interval r of the function phi
let d = lim (epsilon->0+) delta

given a function f over Rlet g(x) = ( (integral [zero, x]) f(t) * dt ) / x ( Read more... )

the anonymous biography is a privacy policy concept that should be used whenever invasive, Google-like records need to be kept to enhance the user's experience via intimacy with the application ( Read more... )

My So-Called Second Life - TIME:nothing like the warm flush of superiority you feel when discovering a fetish you don't have.

~Joel Stein, on furries in Second Life

sociology likes to split things up into threes

before i graduate, i expect to replace my current

• car
• laptop
• desktop

it'll be pretty sad if i don't

need to design something ajax-y and general-purpose ( Read more... )

Quotes about Data Processing:We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on. (David Hubel)