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Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman: programming languages are for humans
“programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute” — Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman (1996)
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Nettle Tech Reports
Andi Voellmy and the Nettle Team have released two tech reports describing our work so far. Don’t Conï¬gure the Network, Program It! Domain-Speciï¬c Programming Languages for Network Systems Nettle: Functional Reactive Programming for OpenFlow Networks
Presenting at the CScADS Workshop on Autotuning for Petascale Applications
Thanks to Rich Vuduc for inviting me to give a talk at CScADS. Autotuning is an approach for generating efficient code for high performance computing. I’ll try to summarize how my PL work can contribute to and benefit from this … Continue reading
IBM PL Day 2010
Here are the abstract and slides for my talk at IBM PL Day. Title: Mechanizing Optimization and Statistics Abstract: Scientific and engineering investigations are formalized most often in the language of numerical mathematics. The tools supporting this are numerous but … Continue reading
I’ll be presenting at IBM PL Day on July 29.
Abstract and slides are here.
Comparison and calibration of transcriptome data from RNA-Seq and tiling arrays
Abstract Background: Tiling arrays have been the tool of choice for probing an organism’s transcriptome without prior assumptions about the transcribed regions, but RNA-Seq is becoming a viable alternative as the costs of sequencing continue to decrease. Understanding the relative … Continue reading
Strunk and White on colons, commas, semicolons, dashes, and parentheses
“The colon has more effect than the comma, less power to separate than the semicolon, and more formality than the dash.” “A dash is a mark of separation stronger than the comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed … Continue reading
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Poincare on lazy thinking
“To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.” — Poincare (1913, p. 27)
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ICCS paper and talk slides now available.
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