It looks like the Occupy movement is starting to fade. It’s no secret that I’ve passively supported them, not with donations or blog posts, but rather with polemics with my work colleagues. What does it mean to support or sympathize with the Occupy movement? It’s not like those people have much of a cohesive message; [...]
Permuting a given list comes up as a subroutine of the REVERSE game. I’ve seen a pretty crazy implementation of shuffle which involves extracting a random element from the source list and putting it in the result. Pretty heavy on the Prolog engine. I think I got a slightly better one: iterate the given list, [...]
My interest in Prolog was recently revived, after briefly courting the P vs NP problem, which, I was hoping, might be made solvable by the machine. While playing with the thing, I found a Prolog solution to the REVERSE game. The exercise is trivial, the point of it being merely to compare the implementation in [...]
Brave people of Iceland, do not let yourselves be robbed. Better to live a generation of isolation with an intact conscience that allows you to look your children in the eye than to succumb to the EU’s blackmails and endure a life of shame. Those who know,,, know BDO what I’m talking about.
Back offline from a full day at work. The philosophical thoughts swarming through my mind this morning all gone. It’s amazing how ephemeral deep thinking can be for some. Perhaps it’s the music playing at this time, or maybe it’s excitement in anticipation of tomorrow’s events. Or maybe work just drains you of philosophical thoughts [...]