I am a little surprised that my technical posts are getting some attention: at least from the WordPress community. There is interest in things technical. There is so much CS on the internet, actually. I wrote a short piece on blogging with WordPress and a few people made some superlative comments, which actually surprised me. A little social support really goes a long ways.
My friend Mike Iltis called me last night and we talked for around 3 hours on things technical. (I have the bottom of the line cell phone plan). Mike, who often teaches at the university, had sent me a new set of academic links on some interesting topics, and I share a few of them below. I am not an academic but am more half way in between academia and industry. Industry people regard me as an academic and academics see me as a commercial developer. (I was a commercial developer in Silicon Valley several years ago.) Anyway I do have academic interests, but I realize that there is very much that I do not know or understand. I am mentioning Mike Iltis as a reference for the links below.
- Self similar languages.
- There is one object oriented program and it is this. Every program is one object which is a recursive collection of objects, which in turn are collections of objects. Every object program is isomorphic to this program, and obviously this program is self similar to all of its parts. Mathematically and in terms of formal logic, these notions are more complex than they naively seem to appear.
- There are some really nice CS spots on the web.
- Here is some info on an interesting programming language called pliant. [2].
- Set theory: Setl programming language. [2].
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- Natural language interpretation (automated understanding) is a good topic. With all of the writing occurring especially since the advent of the blog, only computers will be able to read it all.
