Knowing .NET

Great article — the clearest explanation of quantum computing I’ve ever read.

Google Wave is, so far, too difficult and buggy to be relied upon (once upon a time, we called this state “beta software”). Nonetheless, the promise for new types of collaboration are there. Here are some thought-provoking use-cases for Wave

From the CACM last year, a good introduction to and survey of the problem.

• Sunday freedive at Two-Step (Honaunau). Not great vis, but calmer than I expected. Sick of the snow? Not too late for a Spring Hawaii trip! #
• Doing faux tilt-shift in Photoshop of Machu Picchu. Stupid fun. #
• New Phone OS from Microsoft (Win 7 Mobile) — striking UI, clean break from previous OS. Very bold, very nice. #
• Go to minute 5 in this TED talk about Bing Maps: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html #
• I hate <table>. I hate CSS. I hate browsers and their incompatibilities. #
• Bought @bach4life ’s Silverlight eBook (good). Only can read it using Adobe Digital Editions, with no way to x’fer to Kindle (bad). #
• Sat down at computer to find emails establishing a serious frack-up. Everyone’s being nice about it, but bummer of a day-start. #
• Plunging into <table> -> CSS refactoring. If this is the last you hear from me, do not try to recover the body. #
• Surfacing after my <table>->CSS refactoring project. I need a shower. #
• Drunkest Cities and Hawaii’s best is only #88 http://bit.ly/bJi8pb Obviously they’ve …oh, Friday noon… pau hana maitais @ my place! #
• Client site launched successfully — 22 minute cutover. Nice. #

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Why I don’t think artificial intelligence is likely to have a breakthrough in the coming decade: My latest column for SD Times.

• Watched the SuperBowl with 2hr time-delay because I was u/w hearing whales and watching tuna destroy a baitball. Hawaii no ka ‘oi! #
• Beaker singing “Dust in the Wind” : http://bit.ly/9gNEv4 #
• Mathematica users: How apply a function n times recursively, where n = Log[2,Length[list]]? i.e., fn[fn[fn[{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}]]] ? #
• Pattern-matching FTW! #
• fn[x_, 1] = foo[x] fn[x_, n_] := foo[fn[x, n-1]] fn[x_] = fn[x_, Log[2,Length[x]]] #
• And on that bombshell, I’m off to Waimea for astro club meeting #
• Feeling simultaneously smart and dumb. This is why I love programming. #
• I only get to use Mathematica once in a blue moon, but every time I do, I think “This is the way programming should be.” #
• The Compaq II on which Anders’ developed Turbo Pascal 4 is on eBay for Haiti Relief: http://bit.ly/9Gmnfp #
• Bad study or bad article? Control group should be straight but childless uncles (such as myself) http://bit.ly/bYhTY0 #
• Mac Scribe looks like it might be the voice dictation s/w I’ve been waiting for… #
• The inventor of the Frisbee has died http://bit.ly/cXWXki Smooth flights, Mr. Morrison. #
• Roger Corman’s Sharktopus gets greenlight: http://io9.com/5470224/here-comes-sharktopus #

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• Are there any shows on the Discovery Channel that are NOT narrated by Mike Rowe? #
• Resolved: Pair programming is NOT a good idea when learning an API. Debate? (Pair prog is BEST way to learn an API?) #
• Colorado Springs going to cut 1/3 of streetlights to aid city budget. Sounds like a good idea to me — I hate streetlights. #
• The @dailyshoot is “Show whether it’s more like Spring or more like Winter.” One of those “Why, yes, I _do_ live in Hawaii…” days… #
• Did a good deed today but my car just failed it’s safety check and it’s $500 to fix. #karma_fail #
• Finally reading DeLillo (White Noise) — OMG can this guy write. #
• Clear Climate Code: FOSS for climate science. Great idea, apparently making good progress: http://clearclimatecode.org/about/ #
• Kindle API spec now public — SDK still requires application: http://bit.ly/9mD4F6 #

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My latest column for SD Times argues that right now, it’s smarter to specialize, not generalize, in your programming career.