Monthly Archives: February 2010

Gajure Now on Clojars

Gajure, my small genetic algorithm framework, is now up on Clojars. Hopefully, this should make it much more convenient to use in a real project. I also added Leiningen support, and if you use Clojure with any frequency, I’d recommend checking that out.
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Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner

I went running today. In and of itself, this is far from unusual, and indeed, I go running most days. Something else happened, however, a deep and dark and disturbing something. Today on my run I was detained by the police, forced to enter an officer’s vehicle, and “escorted” back to my  apartment. I was [...]
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On Initiative

This past week, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about success. Now, perhaps this is a somewhat pedantic exercise, but it seems that if I would like to be successful (and I assure you, this is a valid premise), then I ought to better understand the term — what it means, what it implies, and [...]
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How I develop on OSX

It recently occurred to me that I’m dumb. I certainly don’t mean this in any pejorative sense (after all, that would be abrasive to the ego), but rather I would suggest it as regards a behavioral pattern that I tend to follow. Roughly, said pattern goes like this: Identify problem On the grounds of theoretical purity, construct needlessly complicated [...]
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