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The Quantum Threat

Go is Korean, Lisp is Japanese

Lesser Known Origins Of The Technical Interview

Dear recruiter - a canned response to a canned email

Some thoughts on consensus algorithms for blockchains

Fedora Zen Kernels

Startup cults & Totalitarian teams

Rise of the MacBook Pro Serial Killers

The simplicity of Crypto Currency

Hello Immortal World with Rust

Seattle : future city

The Golden 20s

[email protected]

When will Rust be formally specified ?

Error handling or The Emperor's Old Clothes.

Everyday Ada : Simple REST Service

Raspberry Pi 4

Ada, Rust and Steelman language requirements

Happy PI day with Rust !

Signal Desktop for Arm/Linux

Singular Value Decomposition explained circa 1976

Two sorts with Rust

Ring probabilities in F#

Ring probabilities with Elixir

Corporate funding for Shen

Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Selection Sort

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost

Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Union-Find (Haskell)

Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Union-Find

Codebreaker - A new film about the life of Alan Turing

Bayes's Theorem is more powerful than Jesus

Alan Kay on Programming today (and a few other things)

Moore's Law is "dead"

Spring 2012 books

Computers for Cynics

Cognitive Robotics And Artificial Intelligence

Chronicle

Experimental change

Welcome to John McCarthy's new website.

Quick Sort in Shen

Quick Sort in Common Lisp

Happy Pi Day in Shen

Robot readable world

Smile or Die (AKA Mandatory Optimism)

Hey kids, just say NO to programming !

Clojure/Conj 2011

Overtone

Shen/Kl arrive

40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics (Pixar, 1972)

ClojureScript Demo : Convex Hull

Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Fast Fourier Transform in Qi

Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Red-Black Trees in Qi

Chaitin Proving Darwin

Spring/Summer 2011 Books

Happy PI day ! (in QiII)

Philosophy and Lisp

Artificial Intuition

Anaphoric(aka "Un-hygenic") macros in CL

Ruby compiler in CL

Facts about STM

π in assembly (spigot algorithm)

Google to acquire ITA ?

Summer 2010 reading

So you say that programming language choice does not matter ...

Convex Hull with Aki-Toussaint heuristics

Bucket sort (Clojure)

The Dangers of Computer Science Theory

A molecule viewer in Clojure

Happy π approximation day/night (in assembly) !

Do you really know Lisp ?

Palindromes (Clojure)

Winter 2009 reading

The Half-Life of Knowledge

"The Two Cultures of Mathematics"

Clojure Quine

Play Pong!

Pong! (in Clojure)

Calculating π in Clojure (Salamin-Brent)

Another slice of π ?

Generating π in Haskell

Generating π in CL (faster)

Generating π in CL

A fast MAPCONCAT implementation in Common Lisp

It's good to be wrong about Lisp performance

IWTB (in Lisp performance) - a followup

I want to believe (in Lisp performance)

Integral Calculus in Lambda Calculus (Lisp)

Visualization of SBCL development history since 2000

Live Lisp coding as art.

Problems with optimizing Common Lisp code

A language analogy for the decade

Books for Spring 2009

Lisp50 update

The state of non-commerical CL implementations

Some 2007 Reading / Listening

Firefox 3.0 BETA 2 on FreeBSD 6

True Stories About the Future

Commercial Software Development & Scarcity

Haskell vs. Lisp (tail-recursion)

Bottle that can filter viruses out of water

Reverse superclass envy and bad mental pointers

Recursive reduction

RIA/D

Memetic Malkovich

SBCL 1.0

Strongly typed software disasters

There goes the neighborhood...

Casting SPELs in Lisp (A comic book intro)

From the archives...

Lisp and game development

Paul Graham on the traditional office