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Guillaume Marceau has used data from the Computer Language Benchmark Game to provide a graphical comparison of many different languages. If you drew the benchmark results on an XY chart you could name the four corners. The fast but verbose languages would cluster at the top left. Let’s call them system languages. The elegantly [...] When I visited Washington D.C. for ASPLOS/VEE, I was working on my paper about cascade failure, and had distributed systems on my mind. Some of the papers at the joint conference were about garbage collection. One of the more interestring had an approach called leak pruning, for solving logical leaks. After awhile, I had an [...] I, together with a group from AAR, went to Voyager’s Church today. I was reminded, in many ways, of why I don’t like Church. The service opened with a song, All Because of Jesus by Casting Crowns (lyrics) I was disturbed by the imagery in this song. It reminded me of why some accuse Christianity [...] Last week, I landed on another PhD worthy research project. Given a very large corpus of sentences, such as a digitized version of the Library of Congress, or a less noisy version of the Internet, how can you automatically generate a Thesaurus? At first I thought the problem should be fairly easy, but [...] For a very long time, western culture has had a strong undercurrent about naming. Conceptually, it starts with the recognition that the ability to name a thing gives you power over it. This is reflected in many deep and ancient cultural mythologies. The creation story in the Bible begins with: In the beginning,…the earth [...] |
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