How many fingers do you need to count gods? If you are like most people you simply assume the set of gods is enumerable and then you start fighting over which value in the set of positive integers $latex \mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}&bg=cfcdcd$ or $latex {0, 1, 2, 3, \ldots, }&bg=cfcdcd$ is correct. This process is elegantly explained by … Continue reading Counting Gods
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F# Sirens are Seducing
For the last few days I have been playing around with an early release of F#. F# looks like it might be a .Net language that I can stand! The alpha-geeks at Microsoft Research have convinced their corporate masters that the world needs a functional programming language that can be compiled and executed as efficiently … Continue reading F# Sirens are Seducing
Nobel Peace Prize Idol
My doubts about the Nobel Peace Prize started when Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won during the Vietnam war. In my naive youth I thought a peace prize might have something to do with peace! I was so cute and unsophisticated in those days. As I aged I developed a robust sense of irony … Continue reading Nobel Peace Prize Idol
Google Earth Image Touring
In a scientific poll of one, (I sampled myself), Google Earth was voted the greatest free program on Earth. The brilliant developers at Google have managed to turn the most unlikely subject, geography, into a video game. And what a game it is! Google Earth doesn’t troll around in an adolescent make believe world. Google … Continue reading Google Earth Image Touring
My Olympic Spirit
The US tax payer dodged a bullet yesterday (October 2, 2009). The IOC, that cabal of corrupt whores, awarded the Olympics to Rio instead of Chicago. I've seen Rio, it's a beautiful city, and I pity the poor people there that will soon be paying out the wazoo for the dubious honor of enduring another … Continue reading My Olympic Spirit
Lens Lust
I suffer from a common and debilitating condition commonly referred to as NEM: Not Enough Money! NEM imposes all sorts of conditions and hardships on its victims. In my case NEM limits my lens lust. Without NEM I would have warehouses full of the finest cameras and lenses but as a lowly NEMite I am … Continue reading Lens Lust
Laws or Suggestions
Henry Waxman The other day while torturing myself with CNN I heard Henry Waxman, that living argument for congressional term limits, tell us that the new, all singing and dancing, US health care bill would not fund abortions or pick up the tab for illegal immigrants. Maybe Henry is telling the truth, hey it could … Continue reading Laws or Suggestions
Fake Programming
I have been a fake programmer for a long time. A fake programmer is someone who writes software to crush personal irritants. Fake programmers are not hackers; they don't enjoy the process of software creation; they don't work for the man and they make piss poor cubicle dwellers. Fake programmers detest industry standards and will … Continue reading Fake Programming
What’s In it for Facebook?
Facebook is huge: they brag about a user count well north of one hundred million. If only 0.5% of their users are active that's 500,000 concurrent users. That is a large number. How many expensive servers does it take to support such a load? How much does Facebook shell out for bandwidth? What does it … Continue reading What’s In it for Facebook?
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 