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Thursday, February 13, 2003
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
The opposite of strong typing is not weak typing - its runtime typing
Guido van Rossum points out in this article that Python's typing is not "weak" (being the opposite
of "strong") its runtime. A very different kettle of fish.
of "strong") its runtime. A very different kettle of fish.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Monday, February 10, 2003
Sunday, February 09, 2003
Power laws and blogs
Read this piece by Clay Shirky and, if you haven't yet read it, get yourself a copy of LINKED by Barabasi. A really interesting read.
A hobby horse of mine is that power laws apply to xml markup too - at least in document centric applications. Some years back I ran some tests on SGML/XML corpora that indicated a power law distribution of elements. At its crudest, 20 per cent of the available element types in the DTDs accounted for 80 per cent of the elements occuring in the instances.
Also, related (slightly) is Lies, damned lies and markup.
A hobby horse of mine is that power laws apply to xml markup too - at least in document centric applications. Some years back I ran some tests on SGML/XML corpora that indicated a power law distribution of elements. At its crudest, 20 per cent of the available element types in the DTDs accounted for 80 per cent of the elements occuring in the instances.
Also, related (slightly) is Lies, damned lies and markup.
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