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What is Endocrinology
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A lot of papers on endometriosis that talk about measurements are talking about hormones. Reading about the study of those chemicals and mechanisms lead me to read Wikipedia’s article on the topic. These were the main high level points from the introductory paragraph: “is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, [...]
NexJ Scheme
Sunday, January 22, 2012
NexJ Scheme is an open source project providing an efficient and powerful interpreter for the programming language Scheme that executes in a Java virtual machine. Today I was sort of shocked to learn that there is another implementation besides SISC and Kawa that runs on Java! There wasn’t even an announcement for NexJ on comp.lang.scheme [...]
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts. The design of Tarsnap was guided by the following four [...]
How one class brought SICP back at MIT
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Zombie-like, 6.001 rises from the dead to threaten students again. Unlike a zombie, though, it’s moving quite a bit faster than it did the first time. Like the original, don’t walk into the class expecting that it will teach you Scheme; instead, it attempts to teach thought patterns for computer science, and the structure and [...]
How to Take a Calculus Test
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Show what you know. Don’t invent new math. Don’t contradict yourself. Do the easy questions first. If you don’t know how to do a problem, start by writing down relevant things that you know are true in general. Break difficult problems into manageable pieces. Know what a function is, and know what things are functions. [...]
Version Control in Dolphin Smalltalk
Sunday, January 15, 2012
If you’ve ever wondered how to do version control in a Smalltalk system then check out these videos that Andy Bower recorded for our benefit: Sts Setup: http://bit.ly/StsSetup Sts Projects: http://bit.ly/StsProjects Sts Changes: http://bit.ly/StsPkgChanges Sts Project Changes: http://bit.ly/StsProjChanges Sts Community Repository: http://bit.ly/StsCommRepo (lost the source)
Dolphin runs under Wine
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Folks, As promised I have put up a blog post on how to get Dolphin running native under Wine (in this particular case on Mac OSX using a free product called WineSkin). You can find the blog at: http://object-arts.com/blog/blog.html There are a few videos to go along with the blog and these can be found [...]
Emacs like expression evaluation in Emacs
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
A lot of people would like Emacs style evaluation of code in DrRacket. This document explains how to do it. (via racket-users)