Updates and links

[leonardo_m]

Lot of time since the last update.

News:

Solutions of the first three problems of the qualifications of the Google Code Jam 2013:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/gcj13.rar

A D solution for the Euler problem n.395, translated from Python:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/index.html#euler395

Updated code in the zip file:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/ar/d_notes2.html

Updated and improved (now "foo-bar" is digested as "foo bar" instead of "foobar"):
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/index.html#markov

Added the "Spectral-norm" benchmark using SIMD:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/index.html#spectralnorm_simd

Updated path tracing demo:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/index.html#path_tracing

Added a De Bruijn sequence generator in D:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/index.html#de_bruijn_sequence

Added two photos of a peluche of the Pegasus pony Bluespark:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/im/index.html#bluespark_toy

Links:

An nice example of not so good functional programming, and a better solution:
http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-03/uncle-bob-and-functional-programming

A talk video, Simon Peyton Jones on Adventures with types, nice and interesting:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/keynote-3842
The slides:
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2012/slides/PeytonJones/Adventures%20with%20types.pdf
All the slides of the interesting LASER 2013 conference, including more slides from Simon Peyton:
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2012/slides/

Many interesting slides from the CPPNOW 2013 conference:
https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2013

A simple optimization story:
http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/straylight.html

Some things to know about tin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8yWyuoL2A

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

A simple intro to finite state machines for games:
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

Less Wrong's / Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic-in-progress, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", it's a very long and very good fanfiction novel that introduces ways to think rationally:
http://hpmor.com/

"Flutterwonder", a 3D musical video about the little pony Fluttershy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=iQYrFecvCGo