I may be designing a separate davidad.net from blog.davidad.net shortly, as a landing page for those who don’t already know me. However, I’m not exactly sure what I’d say. Thus, I turn to you, people who (presumably) are convinced that I’m interesting. How would you describe me to someone who clicked or Googled my name and doesn’t know anything else about me?
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Last night I recorded some unoriginal guitar stuff. It’s not very good, but I want to publish more recordings before I go to CA for the summer and probably lose recording capabilities, so have at.
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Today’s attempt at song! I still fail at writing words, so these words are totally improvised, and may or may not make sense. But I hope you will agree that the piano chords, at least, are superb. :-)
Martin Rinard’s group at MIT has achieved significant peformance gains in a huge variety of applications by a very simple optimization: simply skip every other iteration of certain loops. This is a brilliant idea, but it’s also a symptom of huge problems in computer science. We should always have the option be more flexible about how we process information in artificial systems. Computer science is culturally opposed to this; certain philosophers as well as much of the lay public presume this to be a technical limitation (that is to say, a fundamental limitation of technology as opposed to humans), but it’s not.
Someone alert the National Ignition Facility - the cosmetics industry has fusion all figured out. It’s even safe enough to rub on your skin!
That must have been a terrible name in grade school. Or law school— “What do you think about this case, Mr. McCleverty?”
Coki Beach, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
Road signs in Puerto Rico are so intense. I mean, both of these words would be good names for Transformers.
