I had it pointed out to me that today is my 5th anniversary of giving questionable advice on Perlmonks. It's also the 18th anniversary of my moving to Hawaii and subsequently becoming homeless. Ah, memories.
And you may have known that the MIT textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is online, but did you know you can download video of the lectures, too?
Re:Fez
Ovid on 2005-06-07T23:40:33
That's no fez! That's my wife!
OK, it wasn't funny the first time, either.
Actually, both of these are available via darwinports:
Re:SICP
mr_bean on 2005-06-13T00:41:59
Reading SICP reminds me of something Paul Graham
wrote about starting to hang around the MIT AI
Lab. He was impressed with how fast they talked.
He said the secret is not to think any faster,
just use more words.
Did I get the story right?
Anyway, this is the impression of SICP. It's very
wordy.Re:SICP
Ovid on 2005-06-13T00:52:27
Without naming the paper, that's the thought that came to me a few days ago as I was reading a PhD thesis. While I was pleased that the author did not (generally) resort to big words for simple concepts, I did note that he spent an awfully long amount of time justifying his approach to his thesis. After thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that I could reduce the first 20 pages of his thesis down to a page or two.
On the other hand, I've never written such a beast, so I suppose there are probably rules that I don't know about.
