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  1. 23 October 2008

    The Haskell School of Expression

    Paul Hudak

    1307 days ago

    Good book on haskell. I grabbed it off amazon a while ago, but it took me a while to get to it. And I just read the book, didn’t do many of the exercises due to the fact that I was reading it to eat time on the soccer bus mostly. I’m kind of mad that Hudak spends so much time on writing an elementary graphics system, because the book is pegged as a kind of multimedia tutorial in haskell, and of all the media that there are graphics is the least interesting to me. It’s got some nice chapters later on about music though, and I actually understand what first class functions are now. (Ruby doesn’t have them, although the constructs available to you there do make a huge difference coming from a language like java, and are fairly powerful.)

  2. 30 August 2006

    2093 days ago

    Fuckwit

    I don’t know where the word seeped into my vocabulary, but it’s become my favorite derogatory. I was ecstatic to see put to use by someone other than myself, for much the same reason I would have done so.

    via Kjell Olsen2093 days ago

  3. 21 May 2006

    wtf?

    2193 days ago

    I’m a bit disappointed that the above has slinked it’s way into my daily vocabulary. I’ve been a bit resistant to these internet neologisms for awhile1. Twice today it’s come up while I’ve been talking to myself thinking, which I think is a bit much. I wasn’t even sitting at a computer either time. zomg.

    I used the truncation of words pretty heavily as a kid, along with never capitalizing anything and omitting nearly every requisite punctuator from my online talk, but kicked the habit hard and fast. It’s been years, and now I think they’re creeping back. But at least it’s with a holier than thou penchant for cynicism this time.

    1 Times the following have appeared in all of this site: omg: 0, lol: 0, wtf: 1. And that’s in ~three years.

  4. 10 May 2006

    2204 days ago

    Manu Chao

    I was wondering why I had such a time not just understanding this guy, but having any idea at all what was coming from his mouth. It’s because he sings in 7 different languages.

    via Kjell Olsen2204 days ago

  5. 01 May 2006

    2213 days ago

    Ludic

    Of or relating to play or playfulness. I’m surprised that the only place the word makes a significant impact within the english language today is the almost derogatory ludicrous. Stands for nothing but goodness.

    via Kjell Olsen2213 days ago

  6. 30 April 2006

    2214 days ago

    Statistical machine translation live

    Google has launched it’s Arabic <-> English translation machine, which fascinates me. A computer takes two examples of the same text and analyzes them, to the point that it knows how to translate the languages. Al Jazeera’s arabic homepage translated. An excerpt:

    Thousands of people demonstrated in New York to demand the immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. They declared their willingness to continue this campaign until the legislative elections in the US November next.

    Some of it is a bit incomprehensible, but overall it’s quite impressive.

    Kjell Olsen2214 days ago

  7. 28 April 2006

    2216 days ago

    Having Done Java

    Having been a Java programmer will make you a better Ruby or Python or whatever programmer.

    Agreed. My first language was ruby, I learned scheme and java this semester (to whatever basic degree). The three languages cover quite the spectrum. I do think ruby is still my favorite, but I know that I’ll find uses for the other two. And no matter how many times I say I hate java, it’s had a good impact on me overall. At least having learned it, I can say I hate it with more than just vitriol.

    via Kjell Olsen2216 days ago

  8. 23 April 2006

    2222 days ago

    Drastic

    Word of the day (hell, week even).

    Kjell Olsen2222 days ago

  9. 31 October 2005

    2396 days ago

    the Oxford/Harvard/Donovan comma

    I’ve always preferred the oxford comma, but wondered about it. It seems so wrong not to, but it’s so often omitted.

    red, white and blue
    red, white, and blue

    Why wouldn’t you precede the and with a comma? The comma indicates a pause, I don’t know the grammatical term for it. But it reminds me of an array, leaving the comma out makes for a two term array while the harvard correctly implies three.

    via Kjell Olsen2396 days ago

  10. 01 September 2005

    2456 days ago

    New algorithm for learning languages | Science Blog

    For example, the sentences I would like to book a first-class flight to Chicago, I want to book a first-class flight to Boston and Book a first-class flight for me, please may give rise to the pattern book a first-class flight—if this candidate pattern passes the novel statistical significance test that is the core of the algorithm.

    via Kjell Olsen2456 days ago

  11. 22 August 2005

    2465 days ago

    NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Results

    Google rocks the machine translating world. I don’t really know what this means, but google is my only french -> english dictionary. It’s damn good now, and looks to be getting better. Google took top place in both arabic and chinese to english categories.

    via Kjell Olsen2465 days ago

  12. 08 July 2005

    2510 days ago

    Google translate bookmarklet

    On my other computer I had a bookmarklet for translating the current selection with google's translate utility, but lost it. Here it is, so I always have it. Now you can too. Here it is in code:

    javascript:langpair="fr|en";e=""+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getselection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!e)e=prompt("enter%20text%20to%20translate","");if(e!=null)void(window.open("http://google.com/translate_t?langpair="+langpair+"&text="+escape(e),"translate","scrollbars=1,resizablel=1,width=500,height=500"))

    Just copy it to your bookmarks and change the langpair variable to suit your language needs. You can find the right values in the <select name=langpair> on the translate page.

    Kjell Olsen2510 days ago

  13. 22 May 2005

    2557 days ago

    Google Translator: The Universal Language

    I use google’s translator all the time, and it works well – at least for just translating individual phrases or words. But it looks like it’s on the edge of a breakthrough:

    To the translation system, any language is treated the same, and there is no manually created rule-set of grammar, metaphors and such. Instead, the system is learning from existing human translations. Google relies on a large corpus of texts which are available in multiple languages.

    All it needs is someone to feed the system the two books and to teach it the two are translations from language A to language B, and the translator can create what Franz Och called a “language model.”

    via Kjell Olsen2557 days ago

  14. 28 April 2005

    2581 days ago

    Practical Common Lisp

    Nice comprehensive look at lisp – I should read this sometime. Also: hyper-cliki, a lisp wiki.

    via Kjell Olsen2581 days ago

  15. 14 April 2005

    2595 days ago

    cocoaspell.leuski.net

    Additional dictionaries that mesh with OS X’s spelling API, giving you a Danish, or whatever language you need to write in, spellcheck in most OS X apps.

    via Kjell Olsen2595 days ago

  16. 23 March 2005

    2617 days ago

    Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A cool looking language created by a polish philosopher in the mid 1800’s, efficient in its use of grammar and simple because it was constructed artificially to be as simple and efficient as possible. I wrote une composition for French on it.

    Kjell Olsen2617 days ago

  17. 09 March 2005

    A Pattern Language

    Christopher Alexander

    2631 days ago

    A great book detailing some widely applicable ways to design building, and why. Taken from studies conducted by Alexander and his architectural students and colleagues from The Center for Environmental Studies at the University of California, Berkely.

  18. 19 February 2005

    2649 days ago

    pusillanimity

    Word of the day – can you find the present day vernacular form? (definition: contemptible fearfulness)

    via Kjell Olsen2649 days ago

  19. 18 January 2005

    2681 days ago

    JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language

    What javascript is really about.

    via Kjell Olsen2681 days ago

  20. 2681 days ago

    Learn to speak Danish

    I’m jumping into a second semester Danish course at the U today, and jesus I don’t know danish! But heres a nice juicy ten lesson tutorial with nice flash quizzes and listening that can help me brush up.

    via Kjell Olsen2681 days ago

  21. 2681 days ago

    Open Brackets - Wardsback

    a delightful few paragraphs on french slang. I learned a little verlan when I was there – and yes, it’s a bitch to learn foreign slang.

    So, in verlan a rotten (pourri) cop is called a ripou, an Arab is a beur (and flipped again to become a robeu), a Frenchman becomes a céfran, a femme_ (woman) a meuf, fête becomes teuf, vas-y (go!) is zyva, and barjot (slang, originally meaning naïve & bourgeois, later signifying just plain crazy) becomes the spit-collecting word jobard.

    via Kjell Olsen2681 days ago

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