Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Allure of the Asymmetrical

Thoughts on code asymmetry, as inspired by the lowly egg. Although I’ve lived in Charlottesville for quite a while now, I haven’t really taken advantage of the numerous and various local farms. This is perhaps odd, given my health-obsessive nature, and our local prevalence of natural, grass-fed animal products. But whatever the impediment to my [...]
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Analyzing Word Frequencies with Clojure, Enlive and Incanter

I’ve long been interested in getting a better feel for Incanter, a statistical computing and graphical environment for Clojure. So gifted with the fleeting favors of my muse (otherwise known as free time), I thought I’d put together a small library — although it’s not quite a library, yet — for analyzing word-use patterns on blogs and webpages. To [...]
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As it turns out is quite innocuous

What a strange title, you say! Well, this is true, but as it turns out, you are quite likely to have parsed it incorrectly (that is, unless you have just come from this post on Hacker News). In any case, there was a recent small flurry of activity regarding Paul Graham’s use of the rhetorical [...]
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