404 - Page Not Found. Functional data structures in JavaScript with Mori - sitr.us. I have a long-standing desire for a JavaScript library that provides good implementations of functional data structures. Recently I found Mori, and I think that it may be just the library that I have been looking for. Mori packages data structures from the Clojure standard library for use in JavaScript code.
Functional data structures A functional data structure (also called a persistent data structure) has two important qualities: it is immutable and it can be updated by creating a copy with modifications (copy-on-write). A simple example is a linked list. Lists are just one example. Rich Hickey, the creator Clojure, describes functional data structures as decoupling state and time.
Clojure, ClojureScript, and Mori Clojure is a functional language that compiles to JVM bytecode. ClojureScript is an alternative Clojure compiler that produces JavaScript code instead of JVM bytecode. Mori incorporates the ClojureScript build tool and pulls out just the standard library data structures. Hash. Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity.
Elliott Smith. Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived for much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery",[1] and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies. Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug dependence, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. Early life[edit] Steven Paul Smith was born at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child to Gary Smith, a student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Bunny Kay Berryman, an elementary school music teacher.
Smith graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon. Career[edit] Yeah, I don't know. Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? | World. Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she did "all the usual things" like tying people up and dripping hot wax on their nipples.
Her work today, she says, is far more challenging. Aoyama, 52, is trying to cure what Japan's media calls sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome". Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren't even dating, and increasing numbers can't be bothered with sex.
For their government, "celibacy syndrome" is part of a looming national catastrophe. The sign outside her building says "Clinic". Inside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. The number of single people has reached a record high. LIWA.pdf. KFC. Deep-fried soup. There's no other way to break it to you: This Thursday, KFC stores in Japan will start offering deep-fried soup for a limited time. The battered bites of creamy corn porridge (aka potage) will reportedly remain soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. And yes, the Colonel includes whole kernels.
According to the blog RocketNews24, there is, improbably, a link to one of KFC's original recipes: "The Colonel’s autobiography contains a recipe for potato bacon fritters, which KFC Japan started from and tweaked in developing its corn potage variant. " Japan's 1,167 KFC stores are a bit different from those in the U.S., featuring more dark meat along with soy, sesame, and yuzu flavors. But in the age of the rival Yum Brands juggernaut that is the Fiery Doritos Tacos Loco, surely it's only a matter of time before crunchy soup nuggets bob across the ocean.
[Image: Flickr user El Gran Dee, KFC Japan] Collaborating with a 4-year Old | busy mockingbird. One day, while my daughter was happily distracted in her own marker drawings, I decided to risk pulling out a new sketchbook I had special ordered. It had dark paper, and was perfect for adding highlights to. I had only drawn a little in it, and was anxious to try it again, but knowing our daughter’s love of art supplies, it meant that if I wasn’t sly enough, I might have to share.
(Note: I’m all about kid’s crafts, but when it comes to my own art projects, I don’t like to share.) Since she was engrossed in her own project, I thought I might be able to pull it off. Ahhh, I should’ve known better. Oh no she didn’t! Not surprisingly, I LOVED what she drew. Soon, she began flipping through my sketchbook, looking for more heads.
Sometimes I would give her suggestions, like “maybe she could have a dragon body!” For example, the filled-in marker of the one above, she told me, was a chrysalis, for the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly. Like this: Like Loading... Mighty No. 9 by comcept USA, LLC. 日本のファンの皆さんはこちら FOLLOW US on twitter @MightyNo9, and use hashtag #MightyNo9, or "LIKE" US and join the fun on our official Facebook page! PAYPAL TOTAL: $186,380 (as of 4:40pm PDT, Tues 10/1) All money accepted through PayPal will go towards our stretch goals, and we will update the community on the amount we are able to raise. FINAL HOURS UPDATE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! New stretch goals, special fan tribute video, livestream info! UPDATE: MIGHTY NO. 9 (very early, very rough) RUNNING IN UNREAL ENGINE!
UPDATE #25: Making of Our Pitch Video! UPDATE #22: Documentary Episode No. 0! UPDATE #21: Comcept Concept Wednesday: A peek at the process of developing three new key characters in the Mighty No. 9 universe, plus the design for our mascot plushie! UPDATE #20: Communi-Tuesday IV! The ultimate online competition! For more details on other goals, check out the Stretch Goal section further down the page, and our handy FAQ at the bottom! This project is on Kickstarter so it can involve YOU, the fans! Not much d'oh: Race team builds Homer Simpson's car for about $500. David Moore Porcubimmer Motors created this race car based on a car designed by Homer in a 1991 episode of "The Simpsons. " Put your Squishee in the cupholder and get ready to cruise through Springfield!
The Porcubimmer Motors racing team has customized a 1987 BMW E30, turning it into a replica of the boondoggle family car designed by Homer Simpson in a 1991 episode of "The Simpsons. " In the episode, Homer designs the perfect average American car for his long-lost half-brother’s auto company. So, in true "Simpsons" fashion, the car features a separate dome for the children, massive cupholders, and a horn that plays "La Cucaracha. " After the car's $82,000 price tag is revealed, his half-brother's company goes bust and The Homer fades to obscurity...until now. Contrary to the high price tag of the version featured on "The Simpsons," this Porcubrimmer original cost not much at all, as it had to conform to the rules of the 24 Hours of LeMons parody race.
On mobile? Tags: Yo, /via @staydecent. 404 - Page Not Found. Systems and methods for optimization of investment portfolios - D-Wave Systems Inc. - "When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who..." Stu does design | OS X Ivericks. Wow. iCloud Beta. Hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf. The Ecuadorian Library — Geek Empire. Or, The Blast Shack After Three Years Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy essay about how things seemed to me to be going — dreadfully, painfully, like some leaden and ancient Greek tragedy. In that 2010 essay, I surmised that things were going to get worse before they got any better. Sure enough, things now are lots, lots worse. Much worse than Cablegate ever was. Cablegate merely kicked the kneecap of the archaic and semi-useless US State Department.
You see, as it happens, a good half of my essay “The Blast Shack” was about the basic problem of the NSA. One minute’s thought would reveal that a vast, opaque electronic spy outfit like the National Security Agency is exceedingly dangerous to democracy. Well, dear readers, nowadays we do pay that some mind. So, I no longer feel that leaden discontent and those grave misgivings that I felt in 2010. Modern Russia is run entirely by spies. Woa, these are the kinds of google releases that i really care about, a paper on their CTR prediction. Introduced to *resilience* vs sustainability (vs survival).
Many of the new ideas about sustainability and resilience are nothing more than a recognition that the old ways of living are actually good, as seen today in small villages throughout Europe, Mexico, Latin America, Asia and Africa. In our Western culture of over-consumerism, we have actually missed the opportunity of reaching any kind of sustainability. Perhaps we never have actually understood what that concept is all about. I always thought that the original sustainable development term – which was coined 20 years ago in the 1987 UN report, Our Common Future – was a total oxymoron. Perhaps the main reason that we never got it, is that such a level of true understanding of what is at stake requires being proactive.
We need to think about the implications of our lifestyle, think about consequences. As a consequence of our inaction, we are starting to see the concept of resilience replacing sustainability as a goal. The diagram tries to graph this idea. Three capitalisms: yeoman, corporate, and supercapitalism. mW0YHRK.jpg (JPEG Image, 597x792 pixels) - Scaled (81%) Designers' Friend | Web Developer Design Creative Industry UK | Home. 2 years after nuclear disaster, Japan spawns freaky fruits and veggies. @justinhj. During a recent email thread, a friend and I were comparing our local squirrels. She put forth that her Chicago squirrels did not eat popcorn, to which I expressed my disbelief. I couldn’t imagine a squirrel turning their nose up at it. I said I would have to test that theory. I’ll be curious whether yours will eat it. Maybe that hippie organic crap stuff you try to pass off as popcorn is the problem I say! Ensure it is nuked properly, and not burned: Leave some out with the usual offering of almonds and townhouse mini-club crackers before bed: The verdict?
(I called this a Thesis because said friend is an academic, and figured it would resonate better.) Like this: Like Loading... Think Distributed: A Distributed Systems Podcast. Unavailable Listing. Questioning the Idea of People as Lab Rats There was a really great tidbit in… +Eddie May : "Google's increasingly resembles a cult" Internally, yes, very much so, but unfortunately that's equally true of every other large corporation, especially in a corporacratic society like America. They're corrupted by "absolute power", believe they're above the law and morality, and subsequently treat everyone else as prey. Of course some companies are like that from day one, because they're founded by predators. Just look at Microsoft, Apple and Oracle, for example. Google on the other hand wasn't a predator, it was (and fundamentally still is) an advertiser, or what we used to refer to less euphemistically as a spammer.
Except this particular spammer used and provided a lot of Free Software, then ultimately a successful challenge to Microsoft's monopoly, so we all conveniently ignored the fact that Google is basically still just a spammer, myself included. And it turns out this particular spammer does indeed have a cult mentality. Are Workers Too Productive? - Bill Davidow - Business. We are at a dangerous point where commodity worker output can easily exceed the demand for labor Juverston/Flickr We all know about Moore's Law; Gordon Moore's 1965 prediction that the number of components making up an integrated circuit would double every two years for at least ten years.
Indeed, semiconductor industry output grew at approximately that exponential rate for the next 45 years, and semiconductor manufacturers flooded the market with transistors and memory bits. There's mounting evidence that Moore's Law applies to commodity work -- labor that can be produced by many different individuals with a minimal amount of training. As economies in many advanced nations struggle to create jobs, I worry about whether Moore's Law is spilling over into the job creation process. To understand why, you have to understand some of the subtler implications of Moore's Law.
Semiconductor manufacturers continued to build new plants in order to introduce improved production technology. I believe the government should be allowed to view my e-mails, tap my phone calls, and view my web history for national security concerns. CMV : changemyview. Aphorisms: Collection 1. For the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with shorter forms of writing, ranging from one-line aphorisms to shorter 100-200 word vignettes. I find I enjoy the challenge of producing interesting prose at these lengths. My writing seems to exhibit a barbell curve of comfort. The nightmare zone for me is between 500 to 1500 words. Curiously enough, that’s the length that dominates both old and new media.
I can do less than that or more than that easily, but staying within that range feels like squeezing blood from a rock. Anyway, for the last two weeks, on Sunday evenings, I’ve been doing a rather silly “aphorism on demand” thing on Facebook where people throw topics at me and I come with aphorisms on the fly. Here are the results of the first two shows. The Three Kinds of Laziness - garry's subposthaven. The three types of specialist. Taco Bell Testing Out 'Waffle Taco' Read more from NBC: Are Grits the New Mashed Potatoes? Why Vegetarians Are Fuming Over Whole Foods' Chicken Mix-UpSamuel Adams to Offer Up Beer in Custom-Shaped Cans In case you missed it, Taco Bell started selling breakfast last year in about 800 locations in 10 states.
Eventually, it will be rolled out to all 6,000 locations nationwide. Dubbed the FirstMeal menu, it includes breakfast burritos, hash browns, and the A.M. (Read More: Secret's Out! As for the waffle taco, the store staffer told us, "Yes, people are really liking them, we're selling a lot. " Of course, McDonald's probably started the trend with its McGriddles, served on super-sweet maple griddle cakes, a decade ago, and a few years back, Dunkin' Donuts introduced its Waffle Breakfast Sandwiches, which have since been discontinued. Designs On-
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