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Mathematics

Algorithms Should Not Be Patented

Donald Kunth – “I remain convinced that the patent policy most fair and most suitable for the world will regard mathematical ideas (such as algorithms) to be not subject to proprietary patent rights.”

The Myth of The Next Big Language

It's not a showdown between Javascript and Ruby, it's a race towards bioware. Language oriented programming is not a new idea, but it has taken a long time to become a significant influence on…

Left Out

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning…

The Axes of Parsing

This is an introductory guide to the theory and praxis of parsing and lexical analysis. All this material is a necessary basic foundation to the study of parsing.

The Promise of Perfect Symmetry

Via Infosthetics, this exceptionally simple Lie group could be the Mandelbrot set of our generation. The tie-ins to abstract physics are astounding - it forms a picture of what is generally thought…

Strongly Connected Components in Ruby

I've had a massive pile of code and experiments sitting around for too long. It's time to move on, but I thought, why not throw it out to rot instead of just disposing of it? Who knows, the stuff…

A Real Knowledge Economy

The state of science education in New Zealand, is in dire need of a massive creative rejuvenation, but it can only occur to it's fullest once there is widespread knowledge of an irreconcilable crisis…