Monthly Archives: October 2009

OSX Package Management

A few days ago, I was discussing Snow Leopard with a recent OSX convert. For the record, this person remains primarily a linux user — a stalwart patron of Fedora — but he had very recently acquired a unibody Macbook. As I am similarly a user of both linux and OSX, this came as music [...]
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For the Autodidact

I recently stumbled upon several good (and free) books. All in pdf format: Linear Algebra (Jim Heffron) Statistics (Michael Lavine) A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (Riccardo Poli, William B Langdon, Nicholas Freitag McPhee) Neural Networks (Raul Rojas) Introduction to Computing (David Evans)
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On Parallelism

Recently, I read an article describing someone’s experiments in parallel genetic programming, and so I decided to run my own. As has been mentioned, I am quite fond of functional languages; for me, easy parallelism is simply a pleasant bonus. I do think its worth noting, however, that while functional programming may be generally awesome, throwing [...]
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Switching to WordPress

After the comment system on my former blog was decimated last week, I decided to switch over to WordPress. Despite recent security issues, this platform is far more reliable than a blogging framework that I wrote over a few weekends in Clojure. That’s not to say I’m abandoning the project, but its commenting system needs [...]
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