Application design
One sign/measure of a well-designed application s/w is the amount of context that needs to be held in memory/mind/brain when you are modifying/enhancing functionality. Or even just fixing bugs.
traversals of a schizoverted mind
mind — (nay, billions of cells evolved over millions of years out of hydrocarbon molecules)
Month: February, 2012
February 24, 2012
Reading modes
1. Quick skim to glean the basic hypothesis of the article/text
2. Careful read to check the logical consistency
3. Extra careful read to see if it’s well-writter(usually, a function of brevity and coherence)
4. Editor mode.. look at spells, grammar, punctuation.. actually read out aloud etc..
I mostly indulge 1 or 2. Am trying to reduce the mode1 reading and increase mode 3 reading.
Let’s see.
February 24, 2012
Chennai Impressions — part II
has been a big revelation. Am seeing things in a very different light. More
cynical, more objective. Today some propaganda playing some song here.
Few observations:
Rheoteric involves
1. Presenting correlation as causality
2. Overwrought metaphors
3. Meme/idea/thought Repetition
4.
While the ADMK, seems to take a more communist/socialist approach, the DMK seems to take the “Tamil”, self-respect, authoritarianism approach.
February 21, 2012
Generating a Plain Text Corpus from Wikipedia
AtD *thrives* on data and one of the best places for a variety of data is Wikipedia. This post describes how to generate a plain text corpus from a complete Wikipedia dump. This process is a modification of Extracting Text from Wikipedia by Evan Jones.
Evan's post shows how to extract the top articles from the English Wikipedia and make a plain text file.
February 21, 2012
Generating a Plain Text Corpus from Wikipedia
AtD *thrives* on data and one of the best places for a variety of data is Wikipedia. This post describes how to generate a plain text corpus from a complete Wikipedia dump. This process is a modification of Extracting Text from Wikipedia by Evan Jones.
Evan's post shows how to extract the top articles from the English Wikipedia and make a plain text file.
February 15, 2012
my ideal blog post
That’s the kind of blog post i wanna write…:http://www.gwern.net/Zeo#vitamin-d
February 15, 2012
Runner's high is for real
Holy zarquon.. runner’s high is for real… i.e to say it’s not an over-wrought metaphor. The first thing to go when i drink, is my control over my pronounciation. I either jumble it(syllables,words, you name it) up. Not much slurring but just spoonerism. Anyway, today after some quick rounds, i was thinking and was recalling a quote in the context of that thought.. I recalled the right quote, but i was reordering the words and it took me 2-3 tries to get the order right.. Note, all of this just recalling(i.e: verbalizing only in the mind/brain and not actually vocalizing..)
February 15, 2012
Runner’s high is for real
Holy zarquon.. runner’s high is for real… i.e to say it’s not an over-wrought metaphor. The first thing to go when i drink, is my control over my pronounciation. I either jumble it(syllables,words, you name it) up. Not much slurring but just spoonerism. Anyway, today after some quick rounds, i was thinking and was recalling a quote in the context of that thought.. I recalled the right quote, but i was reordering the words and it took me 2-3 tries to get the order right.. Note, all of this just recalling(i.e: verbalizing only in the mind/brain and not actually vocalizing..)
