Friday Links - 2009/12/04

• Incanter Blog - A guy I work with wrote this. It is a statistical package in Clojure. It is currently used by a company that tries to make plane delay predictions.


• Pasteboard HappStack Demo - Here is a little demo of how to write a web app in HappStack. It looks promising.


• Earth's Relative Size - A neat set of videos that demonstrate Earths relative size among other celestial bodies.


• Dirk's Accident - Demonstrates the dangers of magnets! The guy lost part of a finger.

Friday Links - 2009/11/20

• Paaaancaaaakes! - By far the best scene from Cabin Fever


• Part of cat brain simulated - This is part of a cat brain simulated in a computer


• Bowtie - Incredibly fast program for genome assembly against a reference genome

Not too many interesting links this week unfortunately.

Friday links - 2009/11/13

Smashing the Mega-d/Ozdok botnet in 24 hours - Pretty neat story of taking down a large botnet

3D Mandelbrot Set - purdy pictures

Google can render LaTeX math - Very nice feature to easily get proper mathematical equations in your webpages

Interview with John Hughes - John Hughes talking about Erlang and Haskell, I need to check out QuickCheck it sounds rad. I really like the end of this when he asks where the next order of magnitude in decreasing code size will come from.

Python Language Moratorium - A moratorium has been put on the Python language so that other implementations can catch up. This might mean we'll get an implementation that makes some aggressive optimizations

Cool Haskell Function - Shows off how simple and powerful Haskell can be

Philosophizing about Programming - MarkCC talks about his experiences with Haskell and why he thinks functional languages are great for building large systems

Google Go Language - Another MarkCC post. Go has made a lot of noise this week, it looks like it has promise

Friday Links - 2009/11/06

I thought I'd add a weekly list of links that I found interesting over the course of the week. Here is the first installment. Some of these links may be old, they are presented in the week that I get to them, not necessarily the week they hit the 'tubes.

Blue Brain Project - A project to simulate a brain, pretty neat.

Where smoking kills most people - In developed countries, surpriiiiiiiise.

Shazam - Not Magic After All - How that Shazam program works, pretty neat.

F# and workflows - A short blurb + links about F# and workflows (which are monads). F# seems to have some pretty neat stuff.

Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again - Pretty amazing article on 'optigenetics".

Machine Learning - Stanford - Videos of Stanford course on Machine Learning (according to klafka the best part of stats).