links for 2007-08-20

• Erlang Community – Main Page – Trapexit
  Welcome to trapexit.org, the Erlang community site where you can read news and weblogs related to Erlang/OTP, discuss projects, issues and ideas with other Erlang developers, and read and publish articles and HowTos related to Erlang/OTP.
  (tags: dev programming languages erlang)
• The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
  The clear primary consequence we’ve already covered is that applications will increasingly need to be concurrent if they want to fully exploit CPU throughput gains that have now started becoming available and will continue to materialize over the next s
  (tags: dev compsci algorithms programming concurrency computing toread)
• gensym.org: Enumerate, Map, Filter, Accumulate
  Chapter 2 of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs provides an excellent description of how to leverage abstractions to make code more expressive. One technique it describes is processing data like a signal-processing engineer would preces
  (tags: dev programming functional scheme toread)
• Amazon.com: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition: Books: Edward R. Tufte
  A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should occupy a place of honor–within arm’s reach–of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. The design o
  (tags: dev data visualization graphics)
• Erlang Community – Erlang and Neural Networks – Trapexit
  It started with an article about how the free lunch is over for software engineers that a friend sent to me about two years ago. It basically stated that developers have been riding on the wave of Moore’s law to save their butts, and it’s not going to las
  (tags: dev programming erlang neuralnetwork ai toread)
• Erlang for C, C++, and Java Programmers – tamale.net
  This brief tutorial aims to cover the main concepts and syntax of Erlang in a way which programmers of C type languages can relate to. It is not a complete description of the language by any means but it does try to give a feel for the main conceptual dif
  (tags: dev languages erlang functional concurrency programming toread)
• NetLogo Models Library: Termites
  This project is inspired by the behavior of termites gathering wood chips into piles. The termites follow a set of simple rules. Each termite starts wandering randomly. If it bumps into a wood chip, it picks the chip up, and continues to wander randomly.
  (tags: dev ai alife artificiallife swarm ants code java)
• Brendan’s Roadmap Updates: ECMAScript Edition 4 Reference Implementation
  As Dave Herman just posted at Lambda-the-Ultimate, we ECMA members who have been working on the successor to the JavaScript standard have a new http://www.ecmascript-lang.org website, which now hosts the “milestone 0” release of the ES4 Reference Implementation,
  (tags: dev programming javascript)
• ECMAScript
  ECMAScript Programming Language home
  (tags: dev javascript programming reference)

Advertisements