Dennis Miller is awesome

Dennis Miller is awesome. I'm watching his special now on HBO.

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22:39 (utc-4)

 

Data structures and algorithms

I came across a neat list of data structures and algorithms resources today, so I'm keeping a list:

• The Complete Collection of Algorithm Animations
• Data Structures and Algorithms - a full book - here's another copy without frames, but I'm not sure if the content of that version is any different. Also see his notes on Computer Architecture
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java - another book
• Web Data Structures and Algorithms - a big web page with a lot of links. Lots of those links are broken, so be warned, but what links still work seem to be good enough to make it worth linking to this
• OOPWeb.com's Algorithm Directory.
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
• NIST's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures - this is awesome.
• Wolfram's MathWorld has a lot of stuff too. Check out their Discrete Mathematics section, of which Computer Science, etc. is a subsection.

Here's the page I got many of these links from.

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11:53 (utc-4)
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Professing Creation Science

Over at AnswersInGenesis.org (great site, by the way), there's an interview with Dr. Walter Veith, who holds the chair of zoology at a university in South Africa. The interview is excellent, and this quote jumped out at me, because it emphasizes exactly what I've always said. That it takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

'The very name "selection" implies that you're choosing between two or more variants. So that means that the end result is extinction of one in favour of the other. Natural selection never increases the number of variants; it only decreases them. So my problem with it was, "how does a mechanism that makes less and less end up making more and more"?

'The answer obviously is, it doesn't. That leaves chance mutations as the only source of the new information. You have to have all these new genes coding for new features, all interacting precisely with one another, continually arising as animals get more complex, by chance. To believe that, you have to have a lot of faith. It's certainly not something I see in my work as a zoologist.'

He also talks about lots of other neat things, like "latent DNA" (all the neat stuff that's in there that people think is left-over "junk" DNA), the fossil record, animal physiology and eating habits, and genetic engineering. Good read.

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09:54 (utc-4)

 

An Interview with Sterling Hughes on PHP5

Via Simon, An Interview with Sterling Hughes on PHP5.

It's an interesting read in general, and if you're not already intimately familiar with what's coming in PHP5 (and even if you are), you'll probably learn things about that

Also, check out the Serendipity weblogging system. Hughes mentioned that he's going to switch his weblog to that software, and it looks pretty good.

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09:14 (utc-4)

 

Powerpuff Girls

Does it annoy anyone else that someone else does the voice for Buttercup on the Powerpuff Girls now? It used to be the person who did the voice for Tommy on Rugrats, but it totally isn't anymore.

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02:08 (utc-4)
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Programming Under the Influence (PUI?)

Anyone else find it easier to program after having some alcohol? I'm wondering if this is common... I've been distracted all day, and now I made myself a white russian (mmmm) and I'm finally getting some work done. Anyone else have a similar experience?

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