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Non-Symbolic Programming

28Jul07

I’m trying to start blogging more about the work that I’m doing.  Here’s a short essay I wrote yesterday introducing the idea of non-symbolic programming.  The essay is below the fold.

Dogfood, bootstraps, and working code

24Apr07

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This is version 0.2 of ForkCode, the web-based IDE that I’m working on. IDE is an acronym that means “software for making software”.
There are a bunch of fun geeky [...]

Turducken, Part 2

13Apr07

Here’s another draft of my paper from last quarter. Still not finished, but hopefully will be done tomorrow. Just need to edit, smooth things out, add some lit review (including Von Neuman, Holland) and explain the last little bit about how the “DNA” gets copied.
Apologies to everyone to whom none of this makes sense. [...]

Turducken

18Mar07

This is an early draft of a paper I’m working on. It’s late, unfortunately, but I want to post what I’ve got so far for my classmates to check out before our final presentations, so I’m posting it here.
The goal of this project is to design an ALife system that has a good chance [...]

The future of GNOME

18Mar07

Here are a few thoughts on where I think the free software desktop needs to go. Apologies to the non-geeks reading this. I’d love to write this up for a broader audience, but I don’t have time right now and I just wanted to get the ideas on paper.
GNOME, and most of the [...]

Gift ideas

28Nov06

I’m not expecting any extravagant gifts this year, but I just wanted to throw out that my Amazon wish list is up to date, that I am really excited about the Nintendo Wii, and that I have 48 jars of spices in boxes in my room, and that it might be nice to have them [...]


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