As previously announced, I've started my own business. If you're looking for a software company that develops distributed reflective systems, look no further.

Our purpose will be to develop the ideas from the TUNES project, starting with the low-hanging fruits in the hope to fund our longer-term goals.

Our long-term goal is to use reflection ( Read more... )

Here is the sixth installment in this series for my essay Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming. Previous installments: Part I (Creationist programming, The Devil), Part II (Intelligent Design, Polytheism), Part III (Unintelligent Design, Lamarckism), Part IV (Supernatural Selection, Teleological Evolution), Part V(Natural Selection ( Read more... )

Rahul recently pointed me to a nice 1998 review of datamodels in the database world by Stonebraker and Hellerstein: What comes around goes aroundThis paper is quite insightful, and I believe a good overview of the field ( Read more... )

Happy new year to you, faithful readers! 2008 brings the continuation of my series, Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming, of which this is the fifth installment. Previous installments: Part I (Creationist programming, The Devil), Part II (Intelligent Design, Polytheism), Part III (Unintelligent Design, Lamarckism), Part IV( ( Read more... )

Here is the fourth installment in this series for my essay Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming. Previous installments: Part I (Creationist programming, The Devil), Part II (Intelligent Design, Polytheism), Part III (Unintelligent Design, Lamarckism).
Supernatural Selection

Though Unintelligent Design helps further the field of ( Read more... )

Third installment in this series, here is Part III of my essay Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming. Previous installments: Part I (Creationist programming, The Devil), Part II (Intelligent Design, Polytheism).
Unintelligent Design

Intelligent Design was once a great progress ( Read more... )

Second installment in this series, here is Part II of my essay Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming. Previous installment: Part I (Creationist programming, The Devil).
Intelligent Design

Even with the Devil variant ( Read more... )

I'm writing an essay Creationist programming vs Evolutionary programming, based on a speech given at ENS in october 2005, and redacted, extended and polished under the purview of the loveliest of lovelies, my wonderful and everinsightful LucíaIn the hope of pushing myself to finish it, quick ( Read more... )

It's deadline time at work, and I realize I do quite a lot of mistakesthat usually involve jumping to conclusions ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce the availability of Exscribe, a document authoring tool programmed and programmable in Common Lisp. It currently only targets the web, but it's extensible, so who knows?
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