December 2010
26 posts
2 Pinter plays that were the best thing I've seen... →
A Kind of Alaska and Collection
Both breathtaking.
Good compilation of experiments in music notation →
working on my music electronics project from back in the day. thinking about projecting some version of music notation on the base. leaning towards piano roll…
So you want to know who is teaching what next... →
note that this list is a 1 to 1 bijection between course # and prof, so doesn’t really show who Else is teaching what….
ramallah underground tracks →
“The eye that hears and the ear that sees.”
– Dr. Pace on making and playing music (My piano teacher’s teacher)
interesting article that I found, here:
The Essentials of Keyboard Pedagogy: Sight Reading and Music Literacy (first topic)
Anna Tang Acquitted, are you kidding me. →
she stabbed him 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times. one of the nicest guys.
lawyers are ruining america. just like the sophists destroyed greece.
artificial intelligence has made games seem dumb
not chess
or Go
but Sudoku? why does anyone play sudoku. just slowly cutting away at arbitrary domains. I guess it’s cool to be able to see which is the most constrained. but still, so boring.
Time complexity of Python's built-in function →
also for next semester ;.)
Writing code in Latex →
for use next semester. and the one after. ugh
Gorgeous.
(ramallah underground - aswatt il...
still having trouble with this whole internet... →
I don’t really twitter, I’m often really uncomfortable with facebook. I’m trying to get better and convince myself of this always being on exhibition thing.
This is an interesting story by amanda palmer about how to make your online identity a makeshift marketing frenzy, in an indie non-corporate way. i think it’s pretty cool.
i think kickstarter is also a step in this...
woah
the LCS (longest common subsequence) problem is the basis of diff! so cool! i use diff all the time!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff
the missing piece →
a plugin for scratch that enables you to make your very own blocks. I feel like this just might supply what was missing from the already powerful metaphor for programming that scratch is built around. Will have to mess around with it over iap :.)
Pretty exciting. Thanks ben for the link.
also ben wrote a really good article here:
https://itmoves.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/cs-ed-day/
Mike made a french flashcards app! →
“Montessori education can’t be too successful if it didn’t result in...”
– G. Sussman
haha
Scott: oh that’s really funny longest common subsequence
Scott: when i was at bear, i wrote a program to do precisely that
Larisa: what was the O of your algorithm?
Scott: i respected my algorithm’s privacy in that regard
One Day... →
that will be my summer.
not this summer though. maybe next summer.
Division on Computers is non-deterministic!? →
unless you’re dealing with 2’s of course.
I know you were wondering how it would all end, kaboom here it is.
Picking next term's subjects and came upon this. →
interview w/ my algorithms prof. LOL