Algorithmic efficiency in the face of inelegance算法的效率,在面对inelegance

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 周六, 2008年3月1日

Seed magazine published a wonderful crossover article between the worlds of biology and engineering "Algorithmic Inelegance" The complexity of developmental regulation isn't a product of design at all, and it's the antithesis of what human designers would consider good planning or an elegant algorithm.种子杂志发表了一份精彩的文章之间的交叉世界生物学和工程“的算法inelegance ”的复杂性发展的规管是不是一个产品的设计,都和它的对立面是什么人的设计师会考虑良好的规划或一个优雅的算法。 It is, however, exactly what you'd expect ...然而,它正是您期望...

The Web as operating system网路作业系统

Friday, October 19th, 2007 周五, 2007年10月19日

Alistair, who has been writing recently at GigaOM, puts together the most lucid synthesis I have seen on the topic of the "Web OS."阿利斯泰尔,谁已书面最近在gigaom ,提出共同的最清晰的合成我所看到的关于这个专题的“网络操作系统” 。 Big Internet companies are making themselves the OS of the web 2.0 world.大的互联网公司正在作出自己的操作系统的Web 2.0世界。 In addition to the fundamentals — operating a web application, storing data, handling logins ...在除了基本面-经营一个W eb应用程序,存储数据,处理登录. ..

Can code be bad for the planet?可以代码是坏为地球?

Sunday, October 14th, 2007 周日, 2007年10月14日

Alistair has an interesting post on Earth2Tech, the thesis of which is that inefficient coding practices can lead to environmental harm.阿利斯泰尔有一个有趣的职位就earth2tech ,论文,其中是没有效率的编码的做法可能导致的环境损害。 I almost misled myself into thinking AC is blaming virtualization and SaaS/IaaS (infrastructure as a service) on creating such inefficiencies.我差点误导了6-6平,比赛进入交流思想,是怨天尤人,虚拟化和saas / iaas (基础设施作为一个服务) ,创造这样的效率低下。 Rather, he skipped past the obvious environmental benefits of server ...相反,他跳过去明显的环境效益的服务器...

Getting real about security获得真正的安全

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 周二, 2006年10月24日

Adam (crypto nerd extraordinaire, former evil-genius at Zero Knowledge) from the Emergent Chaos "jazz combo" throws us a reference and ties it in with an amusing story about misguided security concepts.亚当(加密老古板extraordinaire ,前邪恶-天才在零知识)由急诊乱“的爵士乐组合”全我们参考和联系,它在同一个有趣的故事,被误导的安全概念。 The Emporer's New Computer Affixing a Mac logo to my PC was, after all, motivated by a combination of personal amusement ...该emporer的新电脑追究1 Mac标志,以我的电脑是的,所有的动机相结合的个人娱乐...

Gettin’ Real Yo得真正的呦

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 周三, 2006年10月18日

Last week I attended the 37Signals "Getting Real" workshop where they indoctrinated the attendees on their parsimonious approach to building and running web applications.上星期,我出席了37signals “获得真正的”讲习班,他们灌输与会代表对他们吝啬的办法建设和运行Web应用程序。 Getting Real is an exciting approach to software development currently largely practiced by Mac-toting revolutionaries.获得实质是一个令人兴奋的方法,软件开发,目前主要是实行由Mac - toting革命家。 But rumours of folks building really useful applications and economically sustainable ...但谣言的乡亲建设真正有用的应用和经济上可持续的...

The Wild Kingdom of “Spore”野生王国“孢子”

Monday, March 20th, 2006 周一, 2006年3月20日

Spore looks to be a truly amazing game in the works from the original creators of Simcity.孢子期待着成为一个真正了不起的游戏,在工程从原来的模拟城市的创造者。 It seems to combine elements of some other classic simulation strategy games such as Populous and Civilization, crossed with the more modern "god" games such as Impossible Creatures and Black and White.这似乎相结合的要素其他一些经典的模拟策略游戏,如人口众多,文明,越过与更现代的“神”等游戏是不可能的动物,和黑与白。 One ... 1 ...

Adding Adwords加入的AdWords

Monday, February 27th, 2006 周一, 2006年2月27日

So I opened a Google "Adwords" account, mainly to figure out how it works and whether the links really are relevant to the content I post.所以我打开一个Google “的AdWords ”帐户,主要是为了弄清楚如何运作,以及是否真的链接内容相关的我张贴。 Basically the idea is Google gets to advertise on my site, and will dynamically display ads which are relevant to whatever content is on ...基本上的想法是Google获得广告在我的网站上,并会动态显示广告有关的内容,无论是对...

Protect your Windows PC for free保护您的Windows PC为免费

Sunday, January 29th, 2006 周日, 2006年1月29日

First in a series of articles about useful things: how to protect your personal computer running Windows when it hooked up to the internet, and do it for free!首先,在一系列的文章,有益的东西:如何保护您的个人计算机运行Windows时,它连接到Internet ,并且这样做是免费的! A combination of Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware is essential for any general purpose internet user running a windows PC, here are my ...结合防病毒,防火墙和反间谍软件是必不可少的任何通用国际互联网用户运行Windows系统的个人电脑,这里有我的...

Put on your safety googles: a trip to Google’s Labs放在您的安全googles :访问Google的实验室

Monday, May 30th, 2005 周一, 2005年5月30日

Just a suggestion...只是一个建议... Check out the simultaneously useful and distracting Google Suggest: as you type the search field expands into a drop down list providing anticipatory or alternative searches and allowing you to see the difference in the size of the result sets for each of them.签出,同时有益的和令人分心的Google建议:在您键入搜寻栏位扩展成为一个下拉列表中提供有预见性的或替代性的搜索和让您看到的差异,在大小的结果集,为他们每个人。 A great way of ...一个伟大的方式...

The Genius of Gmail天才的Gmail

Friday, November 19th, 2004 周五, 2004年11月19日

Gmail: The stickiest of Google's many substances? Gmail的: stickiest Google的许多物质? (updated) Gmail is a truly innovative webmail service. (更新) Gmail是一种真正创新的网络邮件服务。 The interface is incredibly fast and clean, mail is usefully sorted into threads, the targeted ads are inobtrusive, and the features are second to none.接口是令人难以置信的快速和清洁的,邮件是有益的排序到线程,有针对性的广告是inobtrusive ,和特点是首屈一指的。 I should mention they are in beta now so ...我要提到他们是在试用版现在...

See in 4D and other cool visual stuff….看到在四维和其他超酷的视觉的东西… … 。

Thursday, August 5th, 2004 周四, 2004年8月5日

This site answers the age old question: "How Does One Obtain the Ability to 'See' in Four Spatial Dimensions?"本网站的答案岁老问题: “请问1获取的能力, '见'在4空间尺寸” ? Also in the do it yourself category, make your own posters with the Rasterbator: "Welcome to the Rasterbator - NOW IN COLOR!The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures ...此外,在做自己的类别,作出自己的海报与rasterbator : “欢迎您到rasterbator -现在的颜色! r asterbator是一个W eb服务,创造巨大的r asterized图片. ..