Category Archives: Thoughts
Mirror Worlds
A comment to my recent post “Streamnets” caught my attention to dig further because it mentioned the concept of Mirror Worlds, a written work by David Gelernter. It’s a fascinating book, quite ahead of its time — it was published … Continue reading
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Tagged david gelernter, information, machines, mirror worlds, real time, streamnet, streamnets
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Streamnets
IDEA The Internet is the infrastructure needed to interconnect machines to one another and guarantee that they’re online most of the time. According to Wikipedia, the Internet “is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, … Continue reading
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Tagged activity, cable, communication, connection, copper, fiber-optic, gsm, information, machine, rf, sensor, spime, stream, streamnet, technology, wireless
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To REST or not to REST
Yesterday @esjewett pointed out that tarpipe‘s API 2.0 might not be considered RESTful. Quoting the previously written article “A RESTful ESME API“: REST is often seen as an alternative to RPC APIs, or “Remote Procedure Call” APIs. At root, the … Continue reading
Performance oriented FFT
Worth checking out. Quoting the FFTW Home Page: FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as … Continue reading
Pie charts are overrated
Quoting Seth’s Blog: How to make graphs that work: Pie charts are spectacularly overrated. If you want to show me that four out of five dentists prefer Trident and that we need to target the fifth one, show me a … Continue reading
