Archive for July 10th, 2007
Hackers x Talkers
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 | Fun, Programming, computer science, kernel, language, university | No Comments
Drop all your computer science books (including that damn algorithm book), forget about you time reading the linux kernel sources and all the time across the night you’ve lost mining the internet looking for useful information, (even that black screen with gray letters using vi + C), now you can be a hacker just binding components and/or creating a web page with a nice css style. It reminds me a nice antonym to the hacker meaning,
Talkers: A person who speaks more than effectively do something useful.
missing the old times
Alligator Eggs
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 | Fun, Java, Programming, Work, computer science, language | No Comments
I grab this url from a stashed place in the web http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/ it’s a nice puzzle
alligator game.
This game represents the untyped lambda calculus. A hungry alligator is a lambda abstraction, an old alligator is parentheses, and eggs are variables. The eating rule corresponds to beta-reduction. The color rule corresponds to (over-cautious) alpha-conversion. The old age rule says that if a pair of parentheses contains a single term, the parentheses can be removed.
I’m sure that after 4.0 drools release I’m going to implement this game as a drools DRL.
