Y-combinator in Haskell as a lexeme-palindrome (the same way that "run, spot, run" is a palindrome)

y f = y where y = f y

Haven't done one of these in a while, but I'm planning to hit up SVGL this Wednesday evening starting around 7-7:30pm. Any of the old crew want to make a party of it? xtalcy/i-gene, I'm talking to you!

Might even play a round of minigolf!

What the heck is up with all the spam on LJ recently? If they don't solve this problem soon I think it's time to finally delete my account.

Am I the only person getting all this garbage?

I'm going to be in Seattle for PAX, September 3rd to 5th. If you will be around, and want to hang out, leave a comment. I'd love to meet up with people.

Halfway done with the worst month of my life.

Today I ran into some code in Spore that has to do with framing pictures of creations. The problem is this: given some object created by the user, come up with a camera which takes a picture of that object ( Read more... )

This is a long response to a post about encoding musical patterns in Haskell.
data Pattern a = Pattern {at :: Integer -> [a], period :: Integer}
The problem was in how to make this object into a Monad; I made an argument that it was just an applicative functor instead.
The "essence" of an applicative functor is that it is just like a monad, ( Read more... )

Anyone who has known me for any period of time knows that I'm about as anti-drug-use as you can get. I don't drink or smoke, let alone make use of any other substances.

But I couldn't stop reading the Washington Post article Deadly Force. It describes a police raid on the home of the mayor of a small town. His two dogs were killed, his house ( Read more... )

"The first thing you need to do is trim and cube your meat."

It sounds so dirty!

( Spore/Popcap ICFP contest report )