Beautiful code: Peter Norvig writes a spelling corrector in Python.
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Solecisms
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The Economist’s Style Guide has a nice list of common solecisms?. Fun to read.
The Children of Húrin
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Of the many stories in the Silmarillion, I think I liked this one the best. And now I have the definitive book, in Tolkien’s words no less. Yeah!
This is a gorgeous hardcover, complete with fold-out maps, great illustrations (even some colour plates!) by Alan Lee, no less. Like this one:
I got it outrageously cheap, [...]
Enthusiasm and futility
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Lately, there’s been too much noise, not enough signal. It’s been hard to remain enthusiastic about anything for long. I’m taking some time off from work—want to think about something new for a change.
Right now, I have a week to waste, and waste it I shall. I’m not one of those ‘active’ people: give [...]
Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut. You shall be missed. At times, knowing people like you were there in the world made up for a lot of other shitty things that happened.
I won’t be too sad though. I’ve known you through your words, and through your words I’ll go through again and again.
We are [...]
Banned
Monday, April 9th, 2007
It seems that my site has been blocked at the office. Can’t figure out why it happened, but I’ll survive. Not checking the stats constantly might even turn out to be a good thing.
Editing blog posts in Emacs
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
I write everything on this site in emacs of course. I finally got around to organizing the myriad Emacs Lisp hacks I use into a common file: presenting posts.el.
Features:
Commands for converting Markdown/Textile into HTML.
Key bindings for the same.
Rudimentary (and buggy) Markdown syntax highlighting for emacs.
Functions for easily typing some unicode characters (via).
It’s not pretty, [...]
No One Belongs here
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
No one belongs here more than you: the most fun website I’ve seen in a while. I’m thinking of buying the book…
Money
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Damn, I have to think up an savings/investment plan, and need to figure out a way to save on taxes. Soon.