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Software collaboration patterns
Software development is a fundamentally social process: it’s all about working together. We (software developers as a caste) have expressions like “programming by contract” and design patterns like “Delegation” that reflect how we humans work together - and we use these patterns to describe how we instruct our robot minions to function. We think ( Read more... ) -
As random as I oughta be
From John D. Cook‘s Probability Facts twitter feed, discovered the infamous RANDU, and this absolutely marvelous quote:
One of us recalls producing a “random” plot with only 11 planes, and being told by his computer center’s programming consultant that he had misused the random number generator: “We guarantee that each number is random individually ( Read more... ) -
November surprises
Two weeks I saw Argo [highly recommended!] and that made me remember the 1980 October Surprise controversies, which were hecka confusing to a five-year-old at the time. I have my own November - or possibly early December - surprise coming: I’m about to become a dad, and I’m, well, 80% enthusiastic and about 20% terrified. Reminders that most of ( Read more... ) -
Twitterlog for the week of 2012-10-14
- Corollary: "computational linguist: better at linguistic analysis than software engineers, better at programming than linguists." #
- SF peeps: last chance to help Bikes for San Francisco Youth on @ indiegogo http://t.co/gSfaGytl (I just pushed it over $4k!) #
- TIL: What I know as Golden Hammer Syndrome ("to man with h-, world looks like nail") should ( Read more... )
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-10-07
- "Burton Quim, founder of ex-gay ministry Overcome…" #aptronym #seriously #seriously #
- academy is strange. “live-tweeting at conferences is a form of neoliberalism…“ why NOT share your ideas? http://t.co/VOF650uu via @ Yendi #
- At UW CSE department, waiting for Carlos Guestrin talk on GraphLab. Expected to see more peeps I know, but here's a few. #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-09-30
- Bay Area NLPers: Long Now seeking "Lexical Data Specialist" - sounds neat. @ stuartrobinson @WWRob @ mdcclv (& more?) http://t.co/fWcyWjD7 #
- Fourth draft of project plan. Somewhat less ranty than Friday afternoon's first draft. Relaxing this weekend helped. #
- My tech-heavy (and Y-chromosome-heavy) employer really should hire more women, if only to ( Read more... )
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-09-23
- Unexpectedly long & fun, if occasionally heated, conversation with @ pbrane &c at Quiz Night. We are champion nerds; even our arguments. #
- Additional evidence of the point from my last two retweets: my last two retweets. #
- .@jinjurly it didn't hurt that I was retweeting you quoting @ chr0me about imitation and mimicry. in reply to jinjurly #
- OH: "I ( Read more... )
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-09-16
- Iain M. Banks' new book is coming: The Hydrogen Sonata. http://t.co/Ij1DJpik (h/t @ root2702) #
Mirrored from Trochaisms.
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-09-16
- Iain M. Banks' new book is coming: The Hydrogen Sonata. http://t.co/Ij1DJpik (h/t @ root2702) #
Mirrored from Trochaisms.
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-09-09
- .@dresdencodak The Office (US): another No Exit remake, this time ostensibly leaving SF! (cf Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, The Cell) #
- .@barbarahui I saw your name in a Shelf Life column in The Nation. You look good there! #
Mirrored from Trochaisms.