Scheme in 33 Miniatures

This weekend I was trying to wake my old brain up by looking and the clever and mind-bending problems from my graduate school. I have really gotten excited about Madhur Tulsi‘s Mathematical Toolkit class — as a “data scientist”/”machine learning engineer” (I sometimes wonder what these designations mean — heck I just am grateful to have been able […]

Adapting to the Kinesis keyboard

I ordered a Kinesis keyboard on joining Automattic, figuring that I would try to kick the new year off taking ergonomics seriously. It feels like I have so far gone through two periods of learning, and still getting with respect to matching the rate of touch typing on Mac laptop keyboard. The first phase was […]

Clojure and Lisp

I suspect that Clojure, event though acknowledge to be the latest incarnation of the common lisp family of languages, is less powerful than Common Lisp. I suspect that this has a lot to do with macro processing, the fact that it is a JVM language. Is it worth pursuing to any degree? How would one […]