Yellowstone County is under a rabies quarantine for the next two months. A strange-acting skunk was found in the Heights last Thursday and tested positive for rabies, said Fred McCracken, Billings Animal Shelter manager. The skunk was acting ...
24 Nov 2008
Iqbal was a poet-philosopher of a rare calibre and his thoughts and ideas promoted universal humanism and could guide the destiny of Pakistan. He was convinced that nothing short of homeland for the Muslims would resolve the malady that afflicted the ...
24 Nov 2008
In the autumn of 1978, as the Workers League was in the final stages of moving its political headquarters from New York to Detroit, Alex Steiner left the party without any explanation. Steiner had previously resigned from the movement in 1973, during ...
22 Oct 2008
There was a lot of new tech in the last couple of .net releases - and unfortunately they are all not in sync at all. It's no big deal, anytime that much new comes out in so many areas it takes a while to get them synced, but it's a little chaotic now ...
10 Oct 2008
Virus writers in Austria have reportedly developed malicious code that targets Windows PowerShell, the command line interface (CLI) shell and scripting language product being developed by Microsoft. Security firm McAfee warned this week that it had ...
30 Sep 2008
If you were duped into believing that the KKK is someshow supportive of Barack Obama – think again. The KKK has already stated explicitly that he will be killed sure as hell. The Secret Service has already been contacted. Obama is already under the ...
13 Sep 2008
Thanks, Caltrans (or whoever), for replacing a smoothly paved bike lane with a bumpy, hand-packed nuisance. It's always a thrill to ride the Bay Trail through Sausalito, where the streets are clogged with erratic retirees in Porsche convertibles and inattentive tourists in rented SUVs. In spite of fast-moving traffic in the two northbound lanes, this section of Bridgeway once provided a ...
21 Nov 2008
Spunky is a white female ferret available for adoption through the Billings Animal Shelter. Her age is unknown, but she has been spayed and de-scented. A quiet, curious animal, she needs a warm environment with room to play. She can't be kept in a sma ...
15 Nov 2008
—The winners of the 2008 Machinima Awards were announced Saturday evening, November 1, at a special ceremony which culminated the day-long 2008 Machinima Festival ( www.festival.machinima.org).
5 Nov 2008
This weekend in New York City, the Machinima Filmfest 2008 was held at Eyebeam, a workshop-cum-gallery space in New York City. The festival honors what Wikipedia describes as "a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using real-time, interactive 3-D engines instead of professional 3D animation software." Much of today's machinima is ...
4 Nov 2008
This time around I cut the whistlestop tour of builtin FP techniques in Perl (map/grep/join) and added a section on Monads - what they are and how to implement them. I'd originally worried that the slides might have been over-academic ...
1 Dec 2008
There is also a Monad instance for Stream , in which return is repeat (matching pure as expected) and duplicate is diagonalization, producing a stream whose nth element is the nth element of the nth element of a given stream of streams. ...
1 Dec 2008
In Haskell, all side effects are coded in Monadic classes. Eric gave a simple example about this concept, stating that a Monad can be simply be understood as a Collection of values of things that change. He made the comparison of a ...
30 Nov 2008
Once you know to add monad to your Google search terms, it's like an undocumented modifier that makes the search results about 38 times as interesting as they would otherwise be. It turns out that lots of people have been raving about ...
27 Nov 2008
Martin Escardo writes about finite search over infinite search spaces expressed as a monad; Conal Elliott writes about the unambiguous choice operator and merging partial values; Luke Palmer on restricted data types and Udon, ...
22 Nov 2008
I show how monads in Haskell can be used to structure infinite search algorithms, and indeed get them for free. This is a follow-up to my blog post Seemingly impossible functional programs. In the two papers Infinite sets that admit ...
21 Nov 2008