Thinking about bit operations on more humane terms.
Tag: language
My journey into ASL continues. I’ve been reading Oliver Sacks _Seeing Voices_ and Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan’s _A Journey into the DEAF-WORLD_. In short, learning a language in your thirties is a whole different ballgame than learning as a toddler. There are a few different brain plasticity cliffs you drop off especially…
A cautionary tale of language from Ted Nelson: We might call a common or garden spade– A personalized earth-moving equipment module A mineralogical mini-transport A personalized strategic tellurian command and control module An air-to-ground interface contour adjustment probe A leveraged tactile-feedback geomass delivery system A man-machine energy-to-structure converter A one-to-one individualized geophysical restructurizer A portable…
Native Germanic-language speaker: “What is your name?” Native Romance-language speaker: “How do you call yourself?” Native RDF speaker: “How do you call what your name is?” More collected Geek Thoughts at http://geekthoughts.info.
The XQuery Working Group is debating the need for higher-order functions in the language. I’m working on honing my description of why this is an important feature. Does this work? What would work better? Imagine you are writing a smallish widget app, in an environment without a standard library. When you need to sort your…
Has there ever been a case of mitigated gall? More collected Geek Thoughts at http://geekthoughts.info/.