Archive for 2006

Programming is writing

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

“Sometimes I wish there were no such thing as binary code, and that programs were written and sold in source form in the same way magazine articles, short stories, nonfiction books, and novels are sold: by being offered to publishers. Human readability would be as important as machine parsability. Code would be copyrighted, but never [...]

Flow

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

A description of a state

A new Hogben?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Maths for the Million – what new chapters would you add?

Mendeleyev’s Dream

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Original periodic table had gaps and forced re-measurement of many atomic weights and other properties.

Ruabon Brick

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Red brick from Ruabon changes colour in the rain…