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	<description>Computer Science and Teaching and Other Ancillary Things</description>
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		<title>comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone wishes that people could leave comments on their website. Unfortunately, you have to be kind of a badass to actually put in the requisite code to allow and encourage commenting for a page. The way out seems to be writing a javascript library that would allow users to double click and add a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>worms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why are there so many computer viruses and worms? I think it&#8217;s largely because all the binary versions of each program are the same. That, at the very least, helps a whole lot. So what if computer software manufacturers recompiled their software for every CD? Then, if they varied the memory placement of functions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>internet architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of people are looking into internet architecture and trying to imagine a better, sexier internet. The biggest project doing so is the NewArch Project: Future-Generation Internet Architecture, and near as I can tell everyone is talking about how to add smarts into the network. I want a dumber network. I want a network that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where are all the rich people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are all the millionaires? Are we all so dumb? If our great-great-grandfathers had put $1000 away for a long while, then we (or our children) would be sitting pretty either now or in the future some time. But that clearly isn&#8217;t how things work. Well why not? What are the forces that have prevented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gerrymandering</title>
		<link>http://imprompt.us/2005/gerrymandering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article on gerrymandersing got me thinking &#8211; what is a good way of saying &#8220;make your lines not too tortured, okay?&#8221;. I think that the ideal rule should be: all congressional districts must pass the rubber band test. You remember the rubber band test, right? It makes sure that a shape is convex &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fuzzy computing</title>
		<link>http://imprompt.us/2005/fuzzy-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons computer programs are so brittle is that everything is digital, so a single bit flip could massively change a value. Operating purely on intuition, then, perhaps we could help make our systems less brittle if we gave more redundancy to higher order bits. We&#8217;d waste space, sure, but space is cheap. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>moments of genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have moments of genius &#8211; those times when we can do no wrong and something amazing gets done. Those moments are exactly what we want to memorialize &#8211; an excellent juggling show, a good piano performance, an excellent class, etc. I want tech that will archive my life&#8217;s experiences and output, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>parallel processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a series of piped processes execute, and then I noticed that bzcat, route_btoa, and my python process, which were all chained up in a pipe together, were all executing on separate processors. This is important! This means something! I just wrote parallel code with an almost perfect speedup BY ACCIDENT!]]></description>
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		<title>learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Socratic Dialogue in the form of an IM cut-and-paste: Peter New internet startup idea &#8211; build AND HOST (all caps == the new part) an e-learning tool that sucks less than Blackboard Jesse sounds good Peter Everyone I know hates Blackboard Peter And there&#8217;s a very natural revenue model if you are hosting it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>type safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d really like it if there was static type checking in a python-like language that could be turned on after initial prototype development. That way I could hack something quick and dirty together, and then I could turn on type safety level 1, and find some places that have type problems, and then fix them, [...]]]></description>
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