Ken Shirriff's blog

As a long-time reader of Hacker News, I keep seeing some comments they don't really contribute to the conversation. Since the discussio...

I recently saw a Master cable lock for sale with the interesting text "Lore Ipsum!" and "Lorem Ipsue!" underneath the w...

A couple months ago I went to a French cafe at the Denver airport. Outside the restaurant was a large rotating menu, clearly costly to manu...

Java is very much in full retreat. -- R. Loui Professor Ronald Loui has an interesting article on the rise of scripting languages ( In Pr...

The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice. -- Erik Meijer I ...

Recently, I've been reading Programming Collective Intelligence , which is a practical guide to machine learning algorithms, showing how...

At work we have a nifty electronic postage kiosk that will weigh letters, compute the postage, print a postage strip, and bill a credit card...