January 2011
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Tail Call Recursion
Recursion is when something is defined by referencing it’s self. Google has an amazing explanation for recursion, just Google search “recursion” (no need to click on any links even! it’s right there in Google). Tail call recursion is when something references it’s self at the end. It’s hard to explain so I’ll just explain by example. Lack of proper tail...
Jan 1st
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December 2010
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Dec 29th
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Functional Programming Languages should be Eager
I think this is largely the reason Haskell is hardly used and other languages like OCaml and Lisp are more widespread. Functional programming languages aren’t very widespread, but of them, Haskell is hardly used outside of academia at all. I was thinking today why it’s not and why Lisp and ML based languages are (to some degree). Last night I was reading about a couple of Financial...
Dec 28th
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a-bit-of-a-technicality-deactiv asked: "http://mr23.g23.co/"

How you do dat?
Dec 28th
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Lots of Tweets
I’ve done a small “survey” of publicly accessible tweets recently. I used Twitter’s Streaming API to download a small stream of tweets (about 1-2% of all tweets during that time) for a little over 3 hours the other day. The result was roughly 285 MB of JSON data, each tweet object is delimited by a newline. I wrote a small Python program to process these tweets and...
Dec 26th
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Reblog if you're a unicorn
Dec 26th
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Dec 19th
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Easter (duck) egg
I’ve hidden a duck on my tumblr, try to find it!
Dec 15th
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jQuery hacketry
I’ve subtly modified the tumblr theme that I have; scroll down and the sidebar thing will follow.
Dec 14th
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New Site Design
check it out http://g23.co/
Dec 11th
I made a GitHub account!
And I’ve posted a simple full text search engine thing that runs on Node.js check it out. http://github.com/g23/CoffeeSearch
Dec 5th
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How to Search: Alpha Search Demo
I’ve been experimenting with full text in JavaScript (more precisely CoffeeScript which I encourage anyone who needs to write a good bit of Javascript to use). I’ve made a small (and I mean very small) demo using Node.js and my searcher at http://search.g23.co/ It searches the my school’s newspaper website, the DeBakey Pulse. The search demonstrates something very small. At the...
Dec 2nd
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