Archive: March 21, 2005

Monday, March 21, 2005

1. More on Gödel: Via MeFi, an interview with Rebecca Goldstein (mentioned last time), and via Keith, The New Yorker has an account of Gödel and Einstein (both to read).

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2. Lifehacker: Laziness vs Hard Work: a showdown. I've been keeping links to Gratzon and Pavlina around meaning to read more of their stuff. The showdown is at Slacker Manager.

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3. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures:

   These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television. The videos have been used extensively in corporate training at Hewlett-Packard and other companies, as well as at several universities and in MIT short courses for industry.

   Oh man, if only I wasn't in school and had time to watch these.

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4. Via Tim Bray, via jwz, Ian Albert put together an enormous Unicode Chart. Very impressive.

   I still find it hard to understand how societies deal with ideographic (is that the right word?) character repetoires of thousands.

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5. Sleep "is a perl inspired embed-able scripting language for Java applications. The main goals of sleep are easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to integrate." Via PLNews.

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6. Ruby Weekly News "is a summary of the week’s activity on the ruby-talk mailing list / the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup", via PLNews.

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7. Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images, via Matt. If I ever want to do rounded corners, now I know where to look first.

   Update (4/6): Followup article.

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8. A tour of Pixar (to finish reading), via Ned.

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