Archive for May, 2005

Viewing life as an automaton

By wondering whether machines could think Alan Turing laid one of the foundations of today’s computing science. Automata are everywhere, even the machine you’re sitting at right now could be drawn as a diagram with states and transitions, but couldn’t the same diagrams be drawn for the universe itself..?

Smart version controlling: why diff is just not good enough

Versioning systems are used everywhere, but can’t they be made smarter? This little article gives a view about how taking advantage of the parsability of the repository contents could save time and provide detailed information on repository contents in an instant.

Let’s polish the gemstones…

I am a computing science student. One day I will get a degree and… what then? Quite a long time I had the feeling that I wasn’t actually learning anything useful and that studying was a waste of time. Sure, quite a lot of subjects were interesting, I did learn to program, but… all the […]

Rock bass :D

De natuur stelt je altijd weer voor verrassingen. Gisteren was er op Animal Planet een erg mooie documentaire over fourageertechnieken van vogels (kolibri’s, kraaien die met stokjes larven vangen, etc.) en vandaag krijg ik van jw een foto van een Ambloplites rupestris, oftewel steenbaars. Ze zwemmen bij het tuincentrum en ik wil ze ook wel […]

OMG, I got handed a musical baton!

Marten thought it’d be funny to hand me a musical baton, so I guess I’ll have to pass it on and answer some questions then…
Total volume of music files on my computer…

tjaard@anahata:/mnt/data/audio$ du -sh
5.0G .

…but does this matter? Most of these are ogg files I created from my cds (I still wonder […]