January 1, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for December 31st through January 1st

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December 19, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for December 19th

December 17, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

These are my links for December 16th through December 17th:

A-Frame – Building Blocks for the VR Web – A-Frame is an open source framework for easily creating WebVR experiences with HTML. It is designed and maintained by MozVR (Mozilla’s virtual reality team research team). A-Frame wraps WebGL in HTML custom elements, enabling web developers to create 3D VR scenes that leverage WebGL’s power, without having to learn its complex low-level API. Because WebGL is ubiquitous in modern browsers on desktop and mobile, A-Frame experiences work across desktop, iPhone (Android support coming soon), and Oculus Rift headsets.
What Kind of Person Calls a Mass Shooting a Hoax? –
Python Is Not C: Take Two (IT Best Kept Secret Is Optimization) –
Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 245th Year – I helped Beethoven arrange his masterpieces in today’s #GoogleDoodle

December 14, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

December 12, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

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Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? | Hacker News -
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures | Hacker News -
The language of choice - Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s John McCarthy invented conditional expressions, casting the logic into the form we’ll study here; then in 1986 Randal Bryant repeated one of McCarthy’s constructions with a crucial tweak that made his report “for many years the most cited paper in all of computer science, because it revolutionized the data structures used to represent Boolean functions” (Knuth).1 Let’s explore and code up some of this heritage of millennia, and bring it to bear on a suitable challenge: playing tic-tac-toe.
Then we’ll tackle a task that’s a little more practical: verifying a carry-lookahead adder circuit. Supposedly logic gets used all the time for all kinds of serious work, but for such you’ll have to consult the serious authors; what I can say myself, from working out the code to follow, is that the subject offers a fun playground plus the most primitive form of the pun between meaning and mechanism.

You’re encouraged to read with this article’s code cloned and ready