adereth.github.io
Silverman's Mode Estimation Method Explained - adereth
http://adereth.github.io/blog/2014/10/12/silvermans-mode-detection-method-explained
Silverman's Mode Estimation Method Explained. I started digging into the history of mode detection after watching Aysylu Greenberg. Rsquo;s Strange Loop talk on benchmarking. She pointed out that the usual benchmarking statistics fail to capture that our timings may actually be samples from multiple distributions, commonly caused by the fact that our systems are comprised of hierarchical caches. I thought it would be useful to add the detection of this to my favorite benchmarking tool, Hugo Duncan. PDF) ...
flausenhaus.org
(def brunch '1st-Annual-Lisp-in-the-Backyard-February-16)
http://flausenhaus.org/2014/01/29/brunch.html
Sunday, February 16. You may have heard by now: the future has. Lisp, functional programming, and managed concurrency are now mainstream and it's just about as awesome as you think it'd be. And I recently gave a Clojure lecture. At MIT, but didn't actually have a workshop. The plan for this event:. Presentation on Clojure (like a half hour) a bit after lunch. I help you setup an environment and start writing stuff immediately. On the behalf of the 1611 λ Calculus Club,. Other: Plenty of bike parking.
clojurewest.org
Clojure/west 2016 - Speakers
http://clojurewest.org/speakers
Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen. Whether you checked the weather app or not on the day before 22 Jan 2016, a huge snow storm covered the Eastern United States that weekend. If you lived in New York or DC, you had to dig out from under a large load of snow the next morning. My keynote will expand on this theme. Bring an umbrella. After spending 10 years on mathematical models of programming and languages, Felleisen set out in 1994 to convince middle schools, high schools, and ...
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