August 16, 2011 by Chris on Tidbits

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I liked a @YouTube video from @SamcoFab http://t.co/fpsaLc8 Samco Fabrication 7272 at the Yerington 300 2011

August 16, 2011 by Chris on Tidbits

I favorited a @YouTube video f…

I favorited a @YouTube video from @SamcoFab http://t.co/fpsaLc8 Samco Fabrication 7272 at the Yerington 300 201

August 15, 2011 by Chris on Tidbits

I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/7Rh3pmG CONVOLUTION – Ken’s woodworking project

August 15, 2011 by Chris on Tidbits

KROQ’s top songs from 1987 http://t.co/3xwqnez How many of these are you still listening to? Nostalgia? or Classics?

August 9, 2011 by Chris on Tidbits

I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/zW7U4l0Iq1o?a Slow motion skateboarding slams / bails / falls (1000 fps)

These are my links for July 20th through July 24th:

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