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blogsBrain simulation is the new frontier
Brain simulation research is more important than putting a man on Mars or starting wars. We will see exoscale computers simulating raw human bandwidth in within 10-15 years. http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Bra... “We perceive because we decide.” John McCarthy: dead at 84
We can take his ideas to the stars and back again. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-8... 50th anniversary of Objects? - Alan Kay
50th anniversary of Objects? – Alan Kay CheapAdvice
Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasn't happened yet
http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/Alan%20Kay%20at%20OOPSLA%201997%20-%... It still hasn’t happened. Dr. Kay said “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol” The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV
Joe Damato drills deep into the implied contracts of the MRI/C API: http://timetobleed.com/the-broken-promises-of-mrireeyarv/The need for RB_GC_GUARD(v) is probably due to faulty register spilling in the MRI eval/thread/GC machinery; the PRE_GETCONTEXT() and POST_GETCONTEXT() macros in MRI eval.c might be the real problem. In contrast, the Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW) GC library manages to scan registers without demanding client code to explicitly flush pointers to the stack. However, in general, it is problematic, in language design practice to make GC contracts completely transparent to API client code. This difficultly is explicitly solved in the design of Lua: Rule 110 in HTML5 + CSS3
Interesting post over at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4222 http://elilies.com/rule110-full.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 Wasn’t familiar with Rule 110, but this caught my attention:
Year Million
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Million-Science-Edge-Knowledge/dp/1934633054 Entertaining essays. However, it’s absurd that this book is not Kindled. I hope we are not pulverizing living things into sheets so we can encode bits with such low throughput in the year 1,000,000. The Most Important Book On OOP In 20 Years
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3925 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h9dje/the_most_important_bo... |
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