::: {dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"} Jim Hugunin, of AspectJ and JPython/Jython, has made a preliminary version of Python that runs quickly on .NET. This is a very big deal big in that to date the only third-party dynamic languages for .NET have been conspicuously low-performance. At the "Alternate Languages …

Rory wrote a post about strong AI and whether we should spend money there rather than going back to the moon to which Eric replied "...the best goal to push for is solar power satellites...."

I think that solar power satellites is a world-transforming goal that requires government funding, while …

In a post that's mostly about resource management, Eric Gunnerson mentions an API that I didn't know existed:

desktopWindow.Image = Win32Window.DesktopAsBitmap;

This is quite apropos the discussion of novice versus expert users. Here I've been a user of the .NET BCL for more than 2 years and when I …

Like skiers, the average user is a permanent intermediate, neither beginner nor expert. It is a mistake for UI designers to heed debates such as going on in Scoble's comments on UI requests for Longhorn. Even more dangerously, intermediate skills are easy to overlook in usability labs: sit a person …

Intel Research has released an Open Source Machine Learning toolkit based on Bayesian learning. (Hmmm... at the moment, they don't seem to have deployed any... oh, what is the word? ... files.)

I promised myself I'd let my cold burn itself out by taking a day off and making a "2003 highlights" home video for the family. Instead, I ended up writing an application that allows you to create Premiere batch capture lists on your Tablet PC. I can't believe there's another …

Keith Pleas has wondered about what language features could be put in Visual Basic .NET that would differentiate it from C# (as opposed to tool features such as Edit-and-Continue). My suggestion would be rules. If C# can become Scheme, why can't VB.NET become Prolog?

Dare Obasanjo sez "...Based on my experiences working with syndication software as a hobbyist developer for the past year is that the ATOM syndication format does not offer much (if anything) over RSS 2.0 but that the ATOM API looks to be a significant step forward compared to previous …

Please, please, please, provide away to aggregate the whole text of the post ?

Some folks (like Tim) have no control as something else does the RSS. Some folks (like Martin) provide the whole text. But some folks only provide an "excerpt" (cant think of an example offhand) and others (Keith …

The canonical discussion of FP arithmetic (for this audience, at least) is a 1991 paper by David Goldberg titled "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" via [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]