Neurosis interview

Is this insanity?

Thanks to Fisher for putting me on to these guys. I can't believe I haven't found them before!

Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell restores my faith in all that is twee. No really, she's a kickarse artist. Check her out!

Veal

I point you to the wikipedia page on the topic of veal, and in particular the juxtaposition of these two images:




Thank you.

Mathematical induction is a form of deductive reasoning.

Numenta and Jeff Hawkins

Numenta looks interesting. Picked up on this guy on a TED talk called Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing. Pretty interesting stuff. I wonder if modeling the neocortex so simply is going to work. Watched another interesting video on MIT World called Can a New Theory of the Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines?. Excellent talk.

I have all sorts of questions about the validity of assuming that science is complete enough to synthesise intelligence.

Geeks can't send files?

10:06
Michael
I'll try sending you a file

10:07
adrian
ok

10:07
Michael
Oh no, you have to be using gtalk as well.

10:07
adrian
yeah

10:07
Michael
That's fucked.

10:07
adrian
thought so
yeah
bugger

10:08
Michael
Well, back to base64 encoding

10:08
adrian
hah
awesome
bring it on

10:08
Michael
Hang on - I'll just find an encoder
Can't be stuffed writing one.
Can't find a good one - I'll just slap a quick app together.
Hang on, found one
Ah, this piece of shit converter is no good.

10:20
adrian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could you decode that ok?

10:24
Michael
I'm just going to write a quick java app using the sun decoder.
What sort of file was that last one?

10:25
adrian
jpg

10:25
Michael
Cool thanks.

10:25
adrian
tell me what is it

10:25
Michael
Will do, in about 5 minutes

10:25
adrian
this is how I encoded it
perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; open(my $fh, "/Users/adrian/Pictures/redfox.jpg"); my $contents = <$fh>; my $encoding = encode_base64($contents); print $encoding';

one liner baby

10:26
Michael
Haha - too easy.
Oh man, this is fucked, rad (eclipse) is just hanging.

10:30
adrian
do you have perl installed
?

10:30
Michael
Hang on, I'll do it in .net

10:30
adrian
haha
bring it on
you could just do "echo <blah> | perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; print decode_base64(<>);' > ~/out.jpg"

where blah is clipboard

10:34
Michael
Damn, if only I had perl or even cygwin installed on this laptop

10:34
adrian
superior tools!
j/k
well now it's a challenge at least

10:35
Michael
They are superior tools

10:35
adrian
I should have sent you something to make it worth while
how good is that though.. a perl one liner to get around GTalk dodgeyness

10:41
Michael
Fark, finally

10:41
adrian
you're good
.NET

10:41
Michael
Man, he's got his head buried

10:41
adrian
that's fast
hehe

Update:

11:04
Michael

Here's my goodness:

FileStream ins = new FileStream("C:\\temp\\base64.txt", FileMode.Open);
StreamReader r = new StreamReader(ins);
string contents = r.ReadToEnd();
byte[] c = Convert.FromBase64String(contents);
FileStream outs = new FileStream("C:\\temp\\something.jpg", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
outs.Write(c, 0, c.Length);

Budget
Not even stream based.
(the encoding I mean)

What a smarty.

11:10
Michael

Haha
Here's the condensed version:

byte[] c = Convert.FromBase64String(new StreamReader(new FileStream("C:\\temp\\base64.txt", FileMode.Open)).ReadToEnd());
new FileStream("C:\\temp\\something.jpg", FileMode.OpenOrCreate).Write(c, 0, c.Length);

Lovely.

Can someone please tell this guy to stop trying to beat:

echo <blah> | perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; print decode_base64(<>);' > ~/out.jpg

:)

So now that http://scala-tools.org is back, I could build a basic scala app for about 30 minutes before I started getting this lovely error:

[INFO] Velocimacro : initialization starting.
[INFO] Velocimacro : adding VMs from VM library template : VM_global_library.vm
[ERROR] ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader.
[INFO] Velocimacro : error using VM library template VM_global_library.vm : org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm'

and

[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /Users/adrian/development/lift-dev
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: evolve
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 43,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 71,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 97,column 25] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[INFO] ********************* End of debug info from resources from generated POM ***********************

We like that.

Lockhart's Lament

Everyone who thought they knew what mathematics was about, read this now. This whole paper really resonated with me. It's something that has been systematically killed in me since about year 5. I might start studying mathematics again.

That fact that http://scala-tools.org/ is currently down makes my life as a budding and excited lift developer somewhat oxymoronic.

Git as the basis for a backup system? Yes yes yes!

So you want to scale huh?

CircleShare always gets me excited. No wait, that's lift and Scala actors. No wait that's David Pollack. No wait..

I then put Butterfly on our production hardware (a quad-core Intel machine running @ 2.something Ghz with a hardware RAID card that has buffering.) At 10,000 simulated users (>650 requests per second) the server had a load average of about 0.40 and the Java and MySQL processes we using about 15% CPU (of the 400% available).

To date, I have not done any material performance tuning of either lift or Butterfly. I was pleasantly surprised that both performance the way I had hoped they'd performance. As expected, the DB seems to be the gating item in performance. As we scale CircleShare, I've got plenty of performance headroom using Scala Actors like I did with Skittr.

Spelling leaves a bit to be desired, but cool man. Very cool. Man.

This makes perfect sense! Moses was on drugs at the top of Mount Sinai. It's the most obvious explanation, so why don't more people talk about it. Really.

Read through and learn about the Plan 9 source code. 9.pdf looks great as a detailed design overview and code commentary.

Favourite code comment so far:

/*
 * Discover the disk geometry by various sleazeful means.
 *

from /plan9/sys/src/libdisk/disk.c

:)

Learn about Ambient Calculus.

from www.spiegel.de

'Programmers At Work' blog goodness

Came across an informative, interesting, and inspirational blog today; Programmers At Work.

Two very interesting posts from the original PAW 1986 Interviews are a must read for people interested in computer science:

Charles Simonyi
Butler Lampson

Definitely subscribing to this one.

Hammer Filesystem, ZFS, DragonFlyBSD

Nice article comparing Sun's sexy new ZFS to HammerFS. Fuck me, both filesystems look cool. I've heard (rumours?) that Apple is considering ZFS for a future iteration of OS X. HammerFS or "HAMMER Filesystem" is looking kickarse. Perhaps more arse kicking, finger licking better than ZFS? Maybe! Read the article man - and decide for yourself. How does one man come up with a design like this? Crazy genius type stuff.

Anyway, this rave has all come about from the freaky legend why the lucky stiff blogging about cool stuff.

Yes, DragonFlyBSD looks a-some cool.

Lights, camera, action!

Really cool paper here explaining how event based actors were implemented in Scala, and why they scale better than thread based actors. I worked backwards to this from rooting around in some lift webapp source code. It seems the comet stuff in lift is implemented using these event based actors. I think this stuff might just get me interested in web development again :)

Also, Dynamic web applications with lift and Scala.

The Milford Track

Walking the Milford Track is definitely on the agenda in the next couple of months while I'm still working down in New Zealand.

"That's not wilderness - this is wilderness!" etc.

Lots of good info at www.milfordtrack.net.

Mirrors my thoughts on the whole conflict.

Building git on OS X 10.5

I had to install GNU gettext (instructions).

Apparently you don't need to install XML Expat on Leopard, but I did (instructions).

However, I still kept getting:

GITGUI_VERSION = 0.9.2
* new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
GEN git-gui
INDEX lib/
MSGFMT po/de.msg make[1]: *** [po/de.msg] Error
make: *** [all] Error 2

So I did:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
NO_MSGFMT=1 make
sudo make install

to use make with the environment variable NO_MSGFMT set to 1 (which bypasses the need to have gettext installed - so I guess it's not worth installing gettext). A bit of digging in google showed gettext can't understand the commandline arguments passed to it during git build - I haven't checked this out myself though.

CNN doesn't get it.

This is a scathing story about a dismissal from CNN on the grounds of "extra-work writing".

During my final conversation with Ed Litvak and a representative from HR, they hammered home a single line in the CNN employee handbook which states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" must be run through the network's standards and practices department.

Favourite lines:

Jesus, we have a Gestapo?

and

Corporate-think dictates that the mainstream television press as a monstrous multi-headed hydra is the ultimate news authority and therefore is in possession of the one and only hotline to the ghosts of Murrow and Sevareid. Sure those bloggers are entertaining, but in the end they're really just insects who either feed off the carcasses of news items vetted through various networks or, when they do break stories, want nothing more than to see themselves granted an audience by the kingmakers on television.

This, of course, is horseshit.

Good read.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

I used to suffer from Alice in Wonderland syndrome when I was a kid. Stumbled across this, this morning - had NO idea other people had experienced this. Didn't affect me for long (a few years), and only generally at night when I was trying to go to sleep - but the description fits perfectly (self diagnosis and all). Totally flipping out right now :)

Strapping Young Lad

Opeth

The Presets - Girl and The Sea

The Presets - Are you the one?

lift+scala == good webapps

lift+scala == good webapps. Task and project management type app to come for your working pleasure!

Wellington Harbour

An old red chug-tug rests wearily at its mooring. It rocks to the lap of ocean tickling its belly and shimmers in reflections along the skirt of it, along the lines where its body enters the deep green sea; the "Sea Lion Wellington". Further out in the open water a smaller sailing vessel crab-walks across the flat plane of reflected sky. A motorised tinny criss-crosses in the other direction. Two tiny life-jacket clad fishermen pose, heads still in a turn, tracking the oystered rock-roughage which is the shore. They speed out to sea, trailing a barely visible wake of white wash. Even further out, more white-sailed craft jostle and tack, up and down-wind. Great hunkering mountain ridges brood behind them, silent and monstrous in their contemplation of this whole harbour scene.

A white gull flattens and rides the air in a flapping of loops and breezy spirals. Beady eyes flicker to scan the shapes beneath her. She is quick. Her feathers are hefty and they shine. She is queen of her scrapdom.

"Strait Shipping" in capitals shouts across the vista between us. This great scrap of metal sluices in a slow tail-slide to angle away and out of the harbour. It breathes great bellyfuls of air to exhale acrid smoke from its many fluted exhaust towers. Smaller ships, like minnows in the shade of some great water monster hurry to give it free passage. Move, or be downtrodden!

Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong by E. E. Cummings [mp3]

Clown in the Moon

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas

www.smh.com.au - Really, why do we care?

"Kylie offers words of wisdom for Britney"?
"Party boy Corey in possible brawl"?
"Hoax caller poses as Ledger's dad"?
"Sly set for Rambo V"?

I think I'm close to giving up on mainstream media.

Live coding at V2_

Found this very interesting. Have been following live coding stuff for a while, and have heaps of ideas myself :D (Personal project material!). Alex McLean's blog is definitely worth subscribing too.

This post discusses some live coding sessions at V2_ (Institute for Unstable Media) last month. Absolutely sexy cool ideas in this stuff. Here is the direct link to the video talk.

The mathematical nature of music is obviously well known and utterly fascinating. But on the practical side I think the distributed approach to music as a shared experience - listener becomes composer becomes listener becomes composer becomes.. - is very exciting.

Enjoy!

Deconstructing Finnegans Wake

This is brilliant.



Thank you Marshall McLuhan. Hehe!

James Joyce reads from "Finnegans Wake"

I challenge anyone to understand all of this.

Salman Rushdie Reads from "The Satanic Verses"

The Presets

Minority voting power

At the risk of sounding glib, surely the effect of "minority voting power" will have a minor effect?

Let's drum it up then! Minority voting power takes center stage (crappy journalism).

I signed the condolences book for Sir Edmund Hillary at Parliament House in Wellington today.

Beijing 2008

versus http://en.beijing2008.cn

Some fool is attempting to read a book a week in 2008. Silly!

Joyce on Jesus

"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."

Pynchonianism-ness

Great yarn about a guy's take on Pynchon.

Writing programs to solve a problem is something akin to developing a language in the context of the problem to be solved and creating a sufficiently flexible and powerful vocabulary to describe and solve issues related to that problem.

The expressiveness of a language is the effectiveness with which this can be done. Programming paradigms, such as procedural definitions, object oriented modeling, functional languages, logic programming and other paradigms are philosophical ideas for providing tools for solving these problems. Lisp is supposedly so powerful because it makes the process of creating these higher language abstractions easier. How about something like Parrot then? How easy is it to write a language on top of Parrot to solve problems? Surely not as convenient or a simple as Lisp, but easier than writing an language without any help whatsoever...

Would it make sense say, to create a language to model sounds and provide a convenient grammar for defining musical performances (to ease live performing for example) and use Parrot as the language target? If so how would you model this? What constructs would you need? What would the grammar look like?

These are just ideas. Shows how little I really understand :D

I still cry over you.

Old drafts in blogger don't often make sense

I'm continually trying to understand what all the signs mean. I watch everyone pointing, their mouths agape, some people sweat, and their eyes quiver deep in their socket seats. I follow the path splayed out before me, but it's really just a miscommunication and a series of poorly judged at signals.

It's official.. I'm educated.

Completion Term :: Semester 2 2007
Degree :: BSc - Bachelor of Science
Degree Status :: Awarded
Specialisation :: COMPA13978 Computer Science, PHYSB23978 Physics
Date of Completion :: 07/12/2007
Name on Testamur :: SNARKY CHARLES BOOJUM

Beauty and truth in physics

Another TED video! Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics. Enjoy!

A day audit

7/12/2007 - 7:30pm

Just finished dinner. Sitting here watching really crappy cable TV - drinking a glass of yummy white wine (from Marlborough!)

7/12/2007 - 8:30pm

Still sitting here watching crappy cable TV. Watching Jamie Oliver in the kitchen - and shouting out loud at some of the luscious dishes he's cooking up. Pow! Reading stuff on the InterWeb. Drinking another glass of increasingly yummy white wine (the same bottle :D)

8/12/2007 - 12:05am

Oh wow. All sorts of things happened that I can't tell you about. I've spent some time reading about Donald Knuth and listening to some of his free lectures. The guy is some kind of demigod. I have guaranteed sex back in Sydney. 2 1/2 counts to be exact. Sickening. There is some incredibly dodgy movie playing on cable (what's new). I've done some drawing tonight, and will follow up with some reading once everything settles down. "I'm a mac daddy pimp. You know that. And now I'm going to cap your ass". Real talk.

8/12/2007 - 7:45am

I woke up and started reading "Memoirs of a Geisha". I have to say - it's not as great as everyone says it is. Everyone waxes lyrical about it.. a fresh zesty power punch of incredible writing. Not so. It's not a bad book, but the people who say things like "Oh, it's the best book I've ever read" or "I've read that book like five times. It's my favourite. It's amazing!" etc just haven't read any "fuck off" books. You know the type. You're lying on your bed reading, and you come across a line, and you starting holding your breath. Your eyes flick back and forth quickly and you read it a couple more times, and then before you know if you're twisted onto your shoulder blades kicking your feet up in the air alternating "Holy fuck!" with sublimely girly giggles. Those books. People need to read those. There are few sure things in reading, but these books exist, and "Memoirs of a Geisha" is not one of them.

8/12/2007 - 10:00am

I'm rushing around cleaning up my apartment to book out of here by midday. It's annoying. I don't enjoy packing.

8/12/2007 - 12:00pm

I'm out! and back into the old apartment. I can't be arsed unpacking. I'm going to go exploring Wellington.

8/12/2007 - 4:15pm

I climbed Mt Vic! Wow - what a beautiful thing. You get a 360 degree view of the lay of Wellington, and it's rugged man! It's an incredibly folded and creased land, and it's beautiful. It was an overcast afternoon, so we're talking filtered light, fleeting cloud shadows, fuzzy horizons. Mix with Radiata pines and serve with a side of sexy english tourists with buxom bottoms, and you have one fucking serene experience.

I walked down Mt Vic and flirted with the escarpment above Oriental Bay, and jaunted back on into the city. Went straight up to the Wellington Cable Car on Lambton Quay. I bought a ticket. Made small talk with the friendly Kiwi behind the counter. Grabbed a coffee. Made eye contact with all the good looking girls on the way back (many), and jumped into the waiting cable car. This took us up to the Botanic Gardens, and Carter Observatory. Skipped through the gardens. Saw the succulents (no San Pedro and certainly no Peyote). It started to rain lightly. You know that smell of earth, like the rain is washing dust out of the air, well the palette of the scene was changed too - more boisterous reds and purples, and deeper greens. Wrap all this in a pleasant hush as the rain splattered canopies high above me, and that was my afternoon.

8/12/2006 - 7:15pm

Grabbed a yummy pide. Scoffing it while reading about programming languages online. Watching some *really* crap movies on cable again. I'm going to have to stop that.

8/12/2006 - 7:30pm

Watching TED videos in bed. Quite apart from traffic noise outside. There is the odd unruly and overexcited tourist in the apartments across The Terrace, but apart from that it's pretty peaceful. This is a better apartment than the other ones I was in. Not as flash, not as quiet, but a certain moral uprightness is embued in the furniture and air here.

24 hours in Wellington. Done!

Bug Labs

Bug Labs is very very fucking cool. Check it out.

You have to check out the videos here at scobleizer.com! Brilliant. My inner techno geek is getting excited. See previous post here :D

Advice on learning Lisp

Stumbled across this today. I somehow followed the rabbit hole from Hacker News or maybe it was linked from there directly:

Dude,

I'm a working Common Lisp programmer. I have just GOT to be the stupidest Common Lisp programmer alive, so let me tell you how I learnt Common Lisp.

1. Buy ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham.

2. Read it. But if you feel your balls retract and your head starts spinning, just stop. Read David Tourestky's (sp?) Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation with Common Lisp. (or something like that - it's free and on the web). Go back to Paul Graham. It will be MUCH easier.

3. Next read Object oriented programming with common lisp by Sonya Keene. This is the best tutorial on object oriented programming ever.

4. Next read Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming with Common Lisp for experience on writing real world common lisp.

Some tips:

When learning CL use a trial edition of a commercial environmentment: www.franz.com www.lispworks.com

Ignore ANYONE that recommends learning scheme or reading books teach scheme (i.e. structured interpretation of computer programs or simply scheme blah blah total waste of time (okay except for How to Design Programs - that wasn't half bad)).

Regs,

Source page here.

Uni is done

Uni is done. Finished. Kaput. Finito. Finis. Totally brilliant feeling. Sat my last exam this morning. Let's hope I pass everything :D I don't want to have to travel back from New Zealand to sit supplementaries!

Amazon Kindle

Reckon you could read Proust or Dostoevsky on this thing?

Financial challenge

How little can I live on in a week for basic living expenses? With increasing salary over the last few years, the amount I live on per week for simple things such as food, daily coffee, transport etc has blown out to well over $250/week. I'd guess that at least $200 of this amount goes to food. I eat out too much, buy too much alcohol (bottles of wine with meals is yummy, but very expensive), and buy too much coffee at the nearest barista.

The challenge is to see how little I can spend on necessary living expenses such as food, travel etc. The new job I'm starting soon will pay all living expenses, so I don't have a motivation to make this as small as possible. Instead I'll see how little I can spend on other things like holiday travel on the weekends (in NZ yeah!) and other day to day expenses. It's unrealistic to do this for a prolonged period of time, so I'll just start at a week and see how many weeks I want to do this for.

This starts tomorrow so I'll post the first set of results in a week.

1 day to go

This time tomorrow I will have sat my last exam for my undergraduate degree. I'll finally have finished my Bachelor of Science (Major Comp. Sci, Minor Physics). Qualified for a life of learning (not that anyone needs a degree for that!).

Then it's off to New Zealand in a week to take up a contract down there. First time working overseas as well. There are plenty of changes afoot!

Kevin 0x07

If Rudd wins the Australian federal election next Saturday he'll focus immediately on 5 major policy items, according to an article titled Rudd's winning plan in The Sydney Morning Herald. I want to focus on the 3rd item, and in particular the plan Rudd announced earlier in his campaign about providing every child in highschool with access to their own personal computer at school.

I think every technologist and anyone who is even vaguely interested in our freedom to use technology in the way we see fit, or anyone who is passionate about the technology their kids are using and learning about in school needs to do something to encourage the potentially new Labour government to think seriously about investing in free and open technology.

Software is the heart and soul of the technology we are surrounding ourselves with. iPods, PCs, Media Centre PCs, laptops, handhelds and PDAs, digital cameras, smart phones — all these devices and the services they provide are about the software running them. Free software, which is open by definition, should be looked at seriously for a number of reasons.

1. Education - Kevin Rudd wants to be known as the "Education Prime Minister". Free software supports education in a fundamental way, in ways that proprietary software can't. Every part of the system in truly "free" software is open to inspection and modification. The tools supplied on top of the system are as good as or better than any other platform — internet browsers, image manipulation programs, sound editing software, word processors, mathematics tools, graphing tools, programming tools, and the list goes on.


2. Freedom and Openness - freedom is considered a basic inalienable right in most modern societies. Free software supports that right unconditionally. The central focus on this as a major tenet of acceptable computer use results in a flow on effect into other areas of technology use in our society. If we are serious about this right it makes sense we would want to teach our kids about it. Using free and open software in the classroom makes the importance of this right implicit.


3. Usability and Utility - One laptop per child, the Ubuntu family of Linux distributions and the sheer number of open source programs available on GNU/Linux are all testaments to the increasing usability and utility of the open source platform.


4. Community - openness fosters community. Vendor lock in and proprietary software wrapped in NDAs and other red tape does not. The right to use your software as you please, understand how it works and modify it to share with your neighbour results in the sharing and furthering of ideas. No single company owns the rights to an idea or implementation of that idea. Effectively the people using the technology have the freedom to modify or extend the idea. These people using technology for a particular purpose form a community. Free software encourages the formation of such groups and empowers them. The one laptop per child project is a great example of this. Children are able to modify any part of the system on their computers they wish to, and redistribute it to their peers. The potential for adapting software in unforeseeable ways like this is incredibly exciting.


5. Cost - the ongoing cost of free software and the support for that software is very competitive compared to vendor supplied software. The reason for this is that free software creates an open market for support. Vendors don't own this service. Any party wanting to offer support for a free software platform can, and can compete against anyone else in this open market. The end result isn't 30 minute wait times on the phone, it's high quality service.


6. Security - free software doesn't rely on security through obscurity. Anyone can understand how the technology works, and can point out weak points and suggest or proffer improvements. Security comes to rely on excellent engineering rather than closed source code and lack of information. Linux for example has an excellent track record in security, and in responding to security threats. Other vendors are catching up in that area, but Linux is a shining example of how free and open software works to help improve security rather than diminish it.


7. Strategic considerations (e.g. vendor neutral) - Free Software is vendor neutral. By definition, investing in free/open software means investing in and building a flexible software platform. No one is contractually bound to use a particular version of software. Companies can upgrade when they see fit. They have the freedom to move to another platform whenever it suits them.

Does the Free Software community know about this policy plan? Write to the Free Software Foundation to make sure they're aware of it. If they can help Labour understand the importance of free software then perhaps this will be looked at seriously. What are the other parties stance on free software? What do the Greens think about it? Write to them and ask.

Investing 1 billion dollars in such a policy plan isn't just about buying thousands of personal computing devices for all students, it's about investing in a technology ecosystem. It's about building wireless networks, high speed internet connectivity, providing good security, building and customising software platforms for schools and classrooms etc. Free and open software has a place at any level in that system. Get writing and start talking!

I really should buy an expensive piece of electronic equipment such as a PSP and take it apart and put it back together. That might unblock some weird childhood thing.

Fermat's last theorem

Great documentary. So humbling to see the journey Andrew Wiles went on to find the proof of this. 7 years solid work, and then over a year to fix it - only to find a solution even more elegant than that originally devised. Stunning :)

Evolving interfaces

Is it possible to construct more usable interfaces that evolve over time? What are the conditions of natural selection? "Use" is an obvious criteria. How do you decide if something is more usable programatically? What are the markers that distinguish usability from popularity?

Interfaces naturally evolve over time anyway. They evolve based on feedback, usability testing, and fashionable trends to name just a few. Is it possible to preempt such trends by learning from user behaviour and having a web UI adapt automatically? How far do you take this? Sites that generate lots of traffic have plenty of data to train such an approach. Would there be any surprising results? Would it all just turn into a big jumbled mess?

I'm too lazy to look at the research, and I have *no idea* whatsoever about usability in general. People who actually know something about it - please reply in comments :) Ta muchly.

Tying your shoes and growing up?

Everyone knows as you get older you become more cynical. You take things that once would have enamoured you for hours (like smelling beautiful flowers in the rain, or eating snails), with a literal grain of salt. Part of growing old gracefully is about never losing that fascination and wonder for the simple things in life.

Cut to tying shoelaces. I would argue that learning to tie your shoelaces was a momentous occasion for all of us. Let's face it, it was a kind of sign that we were becoming independent, a precocious portent that we were starting to grow up. Who doesn't remember proudly showing their grandma or aunt that they could tie their shoes by themselves? I remember awkwardly showing my next door neighbours when I was about four, much to their bemusement. I even remember thinking, "Why are you chuckling in your grown-up superiority? Take me seriously god damn it. I can tie my own shoes!"

So this morning I stumbled across the The Turquoise Turtle Shoelace Knot. I was reading one of my favourite blogs, hackety.org, in particular why's latest updates on his "Shoes" graphics and windowing toolkit, and it got a blatant plug (amongst shoe lace tying metaphors and stacks and flows). You really have to check it out. It's a beautiful knot, so beautiful in fact I had to get a pair of shoes and give it a whirl.

How long has it been since you thought about how to tie your shoelaces and felt joy and pride in doing it? Don't just think about it.. give it a go! (Then download and check out why's Shoes stuff. Very cool.)

(Ok, so I'm buzzing on coffee.)

Why haven't I used secure copy 'scp' before? My god.. it makes life so easy when moving files between unix servers on the internet.

I must be a slow learner. I've known about it for ages, but never bothered to use it. From the man page:

scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh(1) for data
transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security
as ssh(1). Unlike rcp(1), scp will ask for passwords or passphrases if
they are needed for authentication.

Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that
the file is to be copied to/from that host. Copies between two remote
hosts are permitted.

Last lectures and finishing degrees

I've taken the last couple of days off work to finish uni assignments. I had my last uni lecture yesterday. I have to say I have mixed emotions about possibly attending my last lecture for my undergraduate degree. I've been working on getting this thing on and off since 1996 - astronomy and physics full-time for three years and now four years part-time to study computer science. The prospect of it being over is just starting to hit me I guess.

So the last assignment I've been working on is for a database subject. I've found much of the course fairly uninteresting but this assignment is looking pretty darn cool. The application is interesting.

We were given a paper titled "HOT SAX: Finding the Most Unusual Time Series Subsequence: Algorithms and Applications" by Eamonn Keogh, Jessica Lin and Ada Fu (no that's not a typo, and I've already bored everyone to death with banal jokes :)), and we were asked to implement the algorithm outlined there using postgresql and Java/JDBC. The theory behind this thing is to find time series discords amongst time series data. What's a time series discord? Think anomalies in data over time. Some good examples of where this might be applicable could be finding the exact moment that a ventricle in a heart acts abnormally (the time series data here would be an ECG), or perhaps putting your finger on the exact moment that a valve malfunctions in a space shuttle. The efficacy of the algorithm has been tested in just such situations.

I would have liked to link to a copy of the pdf, but the one hosted by the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW is password protected, and I'm too lazy to upload it somewhere else.

I have the brute force algorithm working (after only a few hours work), and am working on the heuristic approach now. It's a lot of fun to watch it working. It's funny though, I'm not sure I want to finish it. That'd signal the last of my uni assessment for as long as it takes me to go back and do honours/a PhD or study something else :)

Enough ruminating for now. I just wanted to record how I feel about this whole thing.

David Deutsch talks cosmos

Witty guy :) Yet another kickarse TED video. Some great descriptions and insights into what our universe is really like.

Mac OS X Leopard 2 hours in...

Leopard rocks. I had no upgrade problems whatsoever. No hung blue screens etc. There are a few minor quirks with the dock and the way windows behave around it. But no showstoppers for me. I can still do my postgresql development, and perl, and java, and play all my movies, and music and so on. Also, the new UI changes are really growing on me. I can finally reorder tabs in Safari, though I'm typing this from Firefox :) I like the new dock, and I like the semi-transparent top menu bar. About the only thing I'm disappointed with is that the funky FrontRow transition has been replaced with a simple fade-in fade-out.

Quick Look is groovy (the way Dustin Hoffman would say it), though a 13" macbook screen is probably a little small to really use it effectively. Cover flow in Finder is ok. Will see how I go after using it a bit. I'm keen to try out Time Machine, but I'll need to get a new external HDD. Spaces is fine, but I've been using similar functionality in Linux window managers since 1997.

Oh and Stacks just rock. I enjoy sitting there opening and closing them. How cool is it that they reflect the first few documents you have in the stack when collapsed? Brilliant. I like that I can drag and drop to and from stacks as well.

Overall, Leopard looks great. "I like it alot!" :)

Wolfram lectures

Fascinating stuff. Complexity, randomness, computational irreducibility, cellular automata, undecidability.

Something is nagging me at the back of my mind though. I have a feeling I'll disagree with much of it after I've had time to think about it and digest the ideas here.

Anyway, give it a watch if you have a spare hour.

Wolfram Blog

Absolutely fascinating ideas and thinking over at Stephen Wolfram's blog.

Here are two posts I've enjoyed reading recently. I hope you enjoy reading them too.

• The simplest Turing machine


• Universe hunting

Perl6 stuff-o

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

Great description of the philosophy behind Perl.

I)

Girl: "Can I speak to you about something?"

Boy: "Sure."

Girl proceeds to relate deep secrets and asks that they remain in confidence.

Boy: "Wow ok. I'm not sure it's any of my business, but here's what I think..."

Boy proceeds to relate his experience and understanding of similar situations in which he has personal and direct experience.

II)

Other boy: "So you've talked to Girl about deep dark secret eh?"

Boy: "Yeah, but it's none of my business."

Other boy: "I agree with that."

Boy: "What?"

Other boy: "That it's none of your business."

Boy: "Sure, yet both you and her insist on involving me. Doesn't it seem contradictory to plead to speak to me about it and then maintain that it's none of my business?"

The world isn't the thing

Krishnamurti and Anderson YouTube playlist. Listen for Anderson's "MmmHmm"s.

An almost anniversary

It was a year to this day.

Nessun Dorma by Pavarotti (Torino 2006)

Pretty special.

"Positive development" - a situation where houses and other infrastructure leave the environment in a better state than where it started.

Neato backup tool idea

uses S3 Amazon (or other online storage facility)


does incremental and full backups


allows specification of particular directories or filetypes


honours all Mac OS X metadata


very fast


very little system overhead


secure


scheduled


integrated nicely into OS X

ZEITGEIST, The Movie

Wow. This film certainly makes an impact. Not sure what to make of it to be honest. But I think it's well worth a watch.

Is seems strange to realise that primitive man would have masturbated watching another male and female copulating in the "wild" or perhaps the "cave". It's socially acceptable to masturbate to a hardcore porn clip of a couple "coupling", but not socially acceptable to copulate in Time Square or to watch another couple going at it. Can someone give me a compelling reason why that might be the case?

History will prove him mad

Nice summary of the disgrace that is George W. Bush.

e·con·o·my

I've always thought of Bram Cohen as a snotty nosed little kid - despite him being primarily responsible for revolutionising file sharing on the internet (BitTorrent) - however his last few posts on his blog have really been jiving with me. I've been thinking about the logic behind global economic theory and the share market more and more lately. Not much of it makes sense. Cost increases over time. People are given good credit ratings for effectively being a "high credit risk". Western Australian politicians positively stain their shorts when the President of China visits their state - "We can make billions".

What gives? I'm expected to be impressed by economic theorists building economic models which borrow from expansionist theories of the universe? I can type equations into LaTeX? That undoubtedly lends weight to my malignant stupidity. Give me a break! What data supports this? People like Nick are swayed by the mathematics. They have no idea what it means. Who are they to lend weight to the ideas presented here? Do they? Undoubtedly not.

So Cohen launches into self obsessed rant after rant, but it's invariably enteraining:

Mortgage Lending
Insurance Rates

Well I'm going to learn something about it and get back to you all. I suspect it'll be as scientific as psychology and about a rational as postmodernism.

Greed factored into the economic equation? Doesn't seem quite so illogical anymore.

The Cat Empire lyrics

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echo sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams?
- your reflection in shadows and dreams

Did you ever see a man
who did walk down the street
white robe with no shoes on his feet
and on top of his head place a box with two slits
and the sign from his neck said
‘I do not exist’
or a woman who could not remember her name
did stutter and stutter
again and again
and saw you and called you her son
her eyes said
‘my being is gone
but still I’m not dead’?

Miserere

Have you ever seen a sound
have you listened to an image
have you ever touched a thought
have you ever tasted nothing
have you ever told a lie
that was true more than truth
because truth it had lied
all its life when it spoke to you?
And what did it say
it is that it is this
this goes here here is there
it is not yes it is
it was dulling your senses
your eyes they were bound
have you ever my friends
been looking around?

And the other replies
with a wave of a hand
I am already here
in this promised land
but not by a god and not by a king
and not by a spirit
deep from within
I am here
because a miracle’s a whim
it’s a flash of glory
it’s an empty tin
and maybe might lets you in
not to save you
but to keep on looking-

Miserere…

Have you ever
been so happy that you’re sad?
that the lights turn to stars
and the stars become eyes
and hello’s are goodbye’s
and the laughs are the sigh’s
and the show disappears with the note
‘until next time’

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echoe sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams
Do you ever look around
and find what is yet to be found?

Miserere - The Cat Empire

"all I want to do is face my fears and problems and do some really cool shit with my life"

Call me slow, but I only just reinvented the conspiracy theory link between 911 and 9/11.

Now this is a supercollider. From a very interesting article titled, The Biggest Thing in Physics.

Brains

Unsolved brain mysteries. Good read. Particularly the point about the brain's handling of time, and the structure of the brain being like a large loopy dynamic network.

I have smart teachers

How about proving the correctness of the L4 microkernel? Turns out my current algorithms teacher was/is(?) the program leader of the group doing this work. "Logic of knowledge" anyone? Smart guy.

L4 verified
Open Kernel Labs
NICTA

In other news, my OO professor last session gets props I suppose for hitting the blog headlines for a paper he wrote with my tutor last session. Validity Invariants and Effects. "Design by contract" takes on a whole new meaning.

Kevin07

I don't know about you, but Rudd is making Howard look more and more outdated as the election approaches.

Kevin07

Sometimes I just need to write it. After the writing of it I often mysteriously lose the need to hit "Publish Post" or "Send". In fact, this post barely made it! How unlike me - one who so often clamours for other's approval.

We shoot.

So stop that. It's just a little black hole. A jagged ceramic edge. By the time I'd opened my program to gush my sensational revelations I'd lost it. That happens to me.



So we skipped across roads and dodged angry drivers grinding their teeth at us through wind visors. We had no where to go, but people watched us anyway; the way people watch manic showmen feeling their way over tightropes. What a rush girl.



You have these moments of euphoria where you think you've understood something implicit, something altogether bound in our universe. Then you have a bottle of Pinot and you can't write a single thing of interest. You have the desire, oh yes - but where is your revelation now man? What props do you pretend to be able to flourish in front of us? How are you going to revolutionize thought and human understanding again?



Phlegm is what is it. What a gangling word. A forlorn red headed kid crying in the rain.



I remember the hay barn and the cold iron, corrugated and rooted in Australian earth. The smell of goat shit and turkey feathers. What a pure and healthy aroma. And that mixed with the spice and sticky allure of the peppercorn tree. Old man peppercorn indeed. I'll write a story about this place one day.



Meaning is secondary to. Huh?

People tell me this is supposed to be important :)

Mac OS X Leopard receives UNIX 03 certification.

This is huge news. It shows that apple has reached the standard of a 1970s operating system.

Having worked with some Indian consultants I've come to believe that it's culturally ok to sniff, and not a polite indecisive sniff - a serious snorting, a nostril distorting rip. The monotony of it gives the sound a far-away quality, it distorts my appreciation of it, makes me think of a polite farting of the nose. It's humorous and silly, but simultaneously disgusting. My day is interspersed with them. My thought process is punctuated by them. I work to the rhythm of "the hoc". I think to the interruptive inhalation of streams of snot.

This wonderful instrument of ours...

Spam mash-up

SPAM mash-up. Natural language processing to process SPAM, and build an intelligible conversational snippet. Relationship to "normal" speech. What does the result tell us about ourselves?

Stephen Hawking's Universe EP6

Feyman

Hofmann's Potion

"As a matter of fact, I think intention is the bottom line in life anyway, for all of us, at any time."

It's July.