And so we are done with Black List, Season 4, as of yesterday evening. We need to take a break, my son and I, and we decided to watch Season 10 of The Walking Dead. It’s a perfect fit, isn’t it?

Introduction to Low Level Bit Hacks. (via John D Cook, but this was an old tweet!)

Pretty Printing Tree Data Structures in Common Lisp. #lisp

I fucked up.
Short version: If you’re reading mailing lists with an NNTP news reader via news.gmane.org, you should update your news reader to point to news.gmane.io instead. — Whatever Happened To news.gmane.org?

An integration loop.

shepherding An invisible property of a progamming language and its ecosystem that drives people into solving problems in ways that are natural for the programming language itself rather than ways that are considered “better” in some sense. These may include things like long term maintainability, readability and performance. — It’s not what programming languages do, it’s what they shepherd you to

A Game of Tetris (user interface). #racket

More data cleansing and feature engineering from the Stata blog. #stata

The combination of simple Org files (+ a Bash script) with Org agenda is really nice! Using Emacs’s org-mode As Your Zettelkästen. (via Irreal) #emacs

Interesting links and ideas on exact real arithmetic.

The problem is made rather difficult by the fact that you can’t compute real numbers strictly, you have to in some sense compute better and better finite approximations. One way of doing this is to compute a stream of arbitrarily good approximations. If someone needs a better approximation than you’ve already given, they pop the next one off. — Uniform Continuity is Kind of Like a Lens