Cultural Comment Can Reading Make You Happier? For all avid readers who have been self-medicating with great books their entire lives, it comes as no surprise that reading books can be good for you.ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH MAZZETTI Save this storySave … Read more
At present, I have an alarming number of tabs open. I’m absolutely not going to tell you how many, or how many are open on my phone. There are 15 pages of notes in my now-finished notebook that are about … Read more
2024-06-01 Arther Whitney, the creator of the k language(s), writes C code in a unique style. Some see it cryptic while others find it elegant. I’ve known his implementation of J, and the word “Incunabulum”, from Dyalog’22. But never had … Read more
In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do. The computer code must also be … Read more
January 18, 2020 Lisp is often known as one of the oldest programming languages. Indeed, it’s conception can be traced back to research done by John McCarthy in 1960. In these series of articles I present an implementation of a … Read more
I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer’s Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987. Why did I read such an old book, published a few years after CLtL1 and well before ANSI … Read more
This is an elaboration of my submission for the letter detection prize as part of the Vesuvius Challenge in June. It gets technical and esoteric but the first few paragraphs are of general interest. In AD 79, Mt Vesuvius, a … Read more
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My family had a room that we called the Library, but even back then I knew it was really just our dining room with a few bookshelves around a small table. When I was a kid I would look up at … Read more
There is something about churning through books that induces envy and even admiration, never more than at this time of year when piles of finished tomes are splashed across social media. Bragging rights seem to go to those who have … Read more