I take my head off to Jim, that’s a great way to approach a weird intersection of mathematics and programming. 😉 For those who are curious … he uses a very simple mathematical algorithm to explore how you can express recursions in Lambda calculus and thus “derives” the Y combinator.
Totally useless, but worth every minute. 😉
Douglas Merrill from Google talks about what it takes to build a search engine for the web.
Besides that what strikes me as interesting is their choice of languages “focusing” (he didn’t exactly say that, but it’s what you understand, when he says they won a prize for it) their efforts in machine translation on: Arabic and Chinese … o.O
As you may have heard the 29c3 is over and there is a ton of great talks … 😀
If you are interested in C++11 and what might come afterwards I advise you to have a look at the conference recordings from this years GoingNative conference. 🙂
I especially liked the day 2 keynote, the STL11 guts and the static if talk. 🙂
The 28c3 is about to end. 🙁 … but there have been some really interesting talks (as every year 😉 ) … and the best thing is they were quite quick with the recordings this year. Most of them were available a few hours after the talk on the 28c3 YouTube channel … so enjoy 🙂
