A few days ago I jailbroke my iPod touch. Just for the geek factor, first, as I thought I could get a C compiler on it. I can’t yet, so I just have it jailbreaken for a few applications. I’ll start my review for a long time loved application in Linux and Mac: Mini vMac.Mini vMac is a hardware emulator, which emulates a whole Mac Plus from the eighties. You just need a real Mac ROM, from a Mac you or someone you know owns.
From The Design of the Emacs Logo
I guess you may already know I love the emacs text editor, and use it as often as I can to do almost everything I can with it. I even use it in my iPod touch, through minivMac. But there is a small niche where it was a pain: quick editing a file from the command line. Those times when you just want to open one file, change a line, save and close.
2 or 3 fillets of marinated herring with onion (typical scandinavian) 3 marinated cucumber, polish (sweet) style 1 Golden (yellow and somewhat sweet, not acid) apple 3 boiled potatos, diced 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise Optional: a little mustard Slice finely the cucumber, cut the apple in dices and the fillets in small pieces. Mix the mustard, mayonnaise, a little vinegar from the herring and then add the fish, mix well.
Pieces of an ENIGMA machine, from Flickr
Assume you have a set of alumni, which are due an individual programming assignment. All have the same assignment (as it is hard to come up with several), and it is hard enough that copying from each other passes for everyone’s mind. As a teacher, how do you detect this?
From my point of view, there are fundamentally two different kinds of copy:
Does not like like that, but tastes great!
2 ripe avocados
1/2 cup coconut milk
2 tablespoons vanilla (or vanillated sugar)
3/4 cup agave syrup (or sugar syrup)
1/2 cup lime juice
1/8 tablespoon salt
3/4 cup coconut butter (or coconut oil)
pie crust (below a recipe for it)
Mix all the ingredients (except the pie crust) in a blender.
As you may remember, I spent quite some time this August with Lavaurs algorithm for the topological identification of the circle corresponding to the Mandelbrot set. After that, I spent quite some more trying to do pictures of external rays to show side by side. I was not able… and then found Mandel.
Thanks to Mandel, LISP and my Lavaurs code
Really nice program, with lots and lots of options (and I met the programmer, which happens to be also mathematician, we met at a conference).