I recently gave out an assignment where I asked students to produce high quality gibberish based on Markov chains and a large input corpus. A classic of computer science education, if you will. This got me thinking – how can we be sure that we are outputting semanticly meaningful gibberish? And what is an essay, [...]
Archives for June 2005
internet archive radio
It would be totally awesome if someone made a program (or, ideally for me, an open-source iTunes plugin that could also be used standalone for Linux people) that could select a random concert from an artist on the Internet Archive‘s Live Music Archive and then start downloading it and begin playing it. Essentially, it would [...]
transparency
So, in my continuing quest to try and find out what makes a good programming language, I’ve managed to come up with a little-talked-about criterion: transparency. I require that any language I use be highly transparent. I want the guts available, and I want the “how” of the execution to be accessible at many levels [...]
black crossstitch
You could dye crossstitch closs black and then you could crossstitch I am 10 ninjas on it. If you were a big nerd. ALLISON DID IT!
