Monday, April 23, 2012

I could fall in love with Julia!

The new programming language, that is. Take a look! Fewer lines of code than even Python, but almost as fast as C++! Built-in support for multicore (looks like -- I haven't verified this yet.)

Looks pretty exciting to me!

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Pandora's Star

I came across this book via a recommendation from Audible and enjoyed it greatly. My Lovely Wife even liked it, and our tastes in media are generally orthogonal so I think most readers/listeners will find it worthwhile.

The sequel, Judas Unchained, isn't quite as good IMHO, but you'll probably have to stick with it to see how the story comes out!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Paul Graham at Pycon 2012

I had planned to see this talk in person, but Pycon filled up before I had the chance to register!

Anyway, this guy is part of the inspiration for my attending grad school. Here's his talk. Here are the essay that hooked me on his book and the one that I responded to most forcefully as it matched my (less well developed) conclusions on the differences in programming languages.

Enjoy!