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2005/05/25
The
Computer History Museum
made some interesting historical papers and code available online. The project is being carried out by Paul McJones:
History of LISP — Software Collections Committee
(via Tayssir John Gabbour in c.l.l)
2005/05/22
Today I listened to the
recording of George Dyson's talk
Von Neumann's Universe at
O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2005.
The way he talked about Kurt Goedel and von Neumann made me smile. He explains a bit of the context surrounding the works of Goedel, Turing and von Neumann.
2005/05/20
I talked to
Jans Aasman
at ECLM 2005
and he offered me access to the alpha release of
AllegroCache.
I finally found the time to play with it today and it's
very nice. Over the years I've been dealing with a lot of
really lame object-relational mappings for both Lisp and
Java including
Hibernate and
TopLink. Compared to all of them AllegroCache is invigorating! Quite likely it will turn out even better than
Statice
developed by
Dan Weinreb. I'm thinking about using AllegroCache as a framestore instead of FramerD.
Last weekend I visited my friend Vadim (composer, translator, programmer). We went hiking in the Soiern mountain range. During our hike we brainstormed about Lisp, composing, philosophy and many other aspects of a life as a hacker.
I enjoyed discussing math in general and math education with Vadim's wife Katja, who's a mathematician. I was excited to learn that she plans to publish a math magazine for young people. She showed me some Russian magazines from her collection. Amazing!
2005/05/14
I've made an audio extract of Luke Gorrie's talk Something Slimey from ECLM available. It's in AAC (mp4) format. Couldn't improve the audio quality though.
2005/05/13
I bought the Meisterstueck No 149 at age 20, and it served me well during all my travels throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the Pacific Islands. It's a remarkable and beautiful piece of engineering. During the same timespan I worked through more than 30 keyboards. People keep asking me: "Why do you keep a journal in longhand using a fountain pen, isn't that a bit archaic?"
People have been asking me the same kind of questions about Lisp. The answer is:
You can't leave a legacy using ephemeral technology.
2005/05/12
Some 15 years ago, when I was still studying physics
in
Tuebingen,
my friend
Klaus-Peter Zauner
showed me the game
Mutabor
invented by
Karsten W. Theis.
I got totally hooked. Karsten captured the spirit
of Meta Chess, mentioned in the book
Goedel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas Hofstadter
in a much simpler game. It is very intriguing to play a game where the rules change all the time. Feels like a Lisp REPL.
2005/05/08
I researched the market of print on demand for quite some time, before I decided to go with
Booksurge
as our printing and distribution service for the publication of
Successful Lisp.
Booksurge still is the only printer able to print on demand and ship globally at a reasonable price. Though we had our share of production and logistics problems with them, as with any real world printing operation, I'm pleased with their customer service and issue tracking system.
Recently Booksurge was acquired by Amazon.com. Hopefully this will eliminate the current model of stocking POD books at the Amazon.com warehouse.
2005/05/03
Andy Kessler made his
How We Got Here : A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
available as DRM-free PDF.
Expanding on themes first raised in his tour-de-force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the industrial revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut [by an unscrupulous editor] from the original manuscript were intended as a Primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments.Kessler unfolds the historical context of our technology driven society. Highly recommended!Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street.
