Grace Hopper Book
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age – The MIT Press
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Godel’s Lost Letter
- On the Edge of Eclipses and P=NP August 17, 2017
- Modeling Reality August 9, 2017
- Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977–2017 July 28, 2017
Lambda the Ultimate
- Graydon Hoare: What next for compiled languages? August 20, 2017
- Review of Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell, 2e August 17, 2017
- Happy Birthday, dear Lambda: 17 is good edition July 28, 2017
Axis of eval
- Peeking into the future with RDP July 12, 2016One aspect of reactive demand programming that sets it apart from other reactive programming models is its support for optimistically working with the predicted future states of signals.Think about a signal that carries the current time in seconds, that you want to display on screen as a clock. The screen should update close to the […]Manuel Simoni
- The worm is the spice May 19, 2016Just had a nice insight regarding systems that deal with reactively updating (potentially large, structured) values such as RDP:The dynamic output of a process is indistinguishable from a static storage resource (file).In batch systems like Unix, this symmetry is not so deep: the output stream of a process looks somewhat like a file, but the process […]Manuel Simoni
- RESTful RDP with big values August 2, 2015What if you want to use a big value, like a whole database table or weblog, as a Reactive Demand Programming signal value? This would make it possible to use RDP to orchestrate things like incremental MapReduce pipelines. Here's one weird trick to make it work.In effect, each RDP signal becomes a RESTful server, speaking an HTTP-like […]Manuel Simoni
S. Padua (Lovelace & Babbage)
- The Copenhagen Interpretation, Part One! October 28, 2016It has been observed in a vacuum, that comics spontaneously and randomly disappear, and then equally inexplicably reappear. Please enjoy the following fluctuation. Ladies and gentlemen,the graphical web post you are about to read was not photographed in a studio. There are 8,674,256 stories in the naked city now, and this hasn’t even been one…Sydney Padua
- UK Paperback coming next week! August 21, 2016Greetings faithful Lovelace and Babbagians, those of you in Greenwich Mean Time will shortly have the chance to feast your eyes on the beautiful paperback edition of The Thrilling Adventures, check it out- And look what all these lovely people say on the back! No plans for a paperback in the US as…Sydney Padua
Vector News Feed
- APL Germany Spring Meeting 2017 February 9, 2017 Stephen Taylor
- Bay Area: APL's Golden Anniversary November 14, 2016 Stephen Taylor
- APL Germany 50th Anniversary Meeting September 4, 2016 Stephen Taylor
- Dyalog Ltd announces Dyalog Version 15.0 July 2, 2016 Stephen Taylor
- Leaping not looping April 18, 2016 Stephen Taylor
My copy arrived in the mail today. I love the smell of a new book, fresh ink.