| Andrew Cooke | Contents | Latest | RSS | Twitter | Previous | Next

C[omp]ute

Welcome to my blog, which was once a mailing list of the same name and is still generated by mail. Please reply via the "comment" links.

Always interested in offers/projects/new ideas. Eclectic experience in fields like: numerical computing; Python web; Java enterprise; functional languages; GPGPU; SQL databases; etc. Based in Santiago, Chile; telecommute worldwide. CV; email.

Personal Projects

Lepl parser for Python.

Colorless Green.

Photography around Santiago.

SVG experiment.

Professional Portfolio

Calibration of seismometers.

Data access via web services.

Cache rewrite.

Extending OpenSSH.

Last 100 entries

Re: Python's sad, unimaginative Enum; Some explanation; Printing binary trees sideways; About "Python's sad, unimaginative Enum"; Atoms in python; Some good feedback here; Frustration Understood; I agree with you #nt; What would be imaginative?; Re: Enum; this is fucking useless; Enum; Python's sad, unimaginative Enum; Possible Fix; Work, Exhaustion, Vacation; VirtualBox with Centos 6.3 to 6.4, client; Matasano - Programming Lessons Learned; PDF to HTML; Alternate Substitution; Why RSA Works; Trigger; Dreaming of Death; Example: Tracing; Using Coroutines In Protocol Simulations; Python 3.3 Only; Pure Python SHA1 and MD4 Implementations; Ubuntu on VirtualBox; Starting TOR as a service on OpenSuse 12.3; 1001 Albums; Using fail2ban on OpenSuse 12.3; PPPoE on OpenSuse 12.3; Good Article on Unified Physics; It's Police (Carabineros); Linux Software for Listening to and Exploring Music; Android is Pretty Bad; Lucky Number; 3D Printing for Casting; Cover Art for MPDroid; Who'd a thought the French were so bigoted?; PS Input Signal; Small Problem with Roksan K2 Amp; Roksan K2 Amp + ATC SCM7 Speakers; Do What Makes Sense; Re: Arguing About Tests, Still; Arguing About Tests, Still; Images; Good Article on NY Drummers; Related Bug Report; Getting Python 3.3 and Virtualenv Working in OpenSuse 12.3; How I Am; Awesome video about digital audio; The Difference Between Dimensional and Normalized Databases; The rise of the new Chinese bogeyman; Updated Syntax; Very First Steps to C-ORM; The Ideal User Interface For Music Exploration; Can The Republicans Be Saved?; Rate Limiting Calls to EchoNest; Mods to Cache; Comparing UYKFG and UYKFD/E/F; Someone Else is Concerned; EchoNest-based Playlist Generator for MPD; Example Voting Results; A Heavyweight Python Cache; Identifying Artists with EchoNest; Notes on Pregalex / Pregabalina / Lyrica; The Neil Cowley Trio; Drake - Make for Data; A Reliable Python Web Service; Useful Python Date/Time Library?; Need to Sleep, But this is Good; Command Line Set Difference; Little Details...; Linux Command Line Tricks; AutoTools Tutorial; Hangman Tactics; A Tor Proxy Embedded In A Web Page; Tree (Nested Dicts) in Python; Sleeping at Parties; I Know Someone Who Hurts Other People; Light and Tea; Description of the LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle; Re: I can relate to that ...; I can relate to that ...; Re: It's 2012 Why Does My IDE Suck?; My Own Alternative Medicine; Nice explanation of SVM; Why and How Writing Crypto is Hard; Re: It's 2012 Why Does My IDE Suck?; Incremental Regular Expressions; BBC Map Confused at Pole; Social Media: Ground Zero in the Culture War; My Visit to the Psycho Doc; Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming; Hope you got some crackers to go with the cheese; Re: But how easy would it be ...; But how easy would it be ...; Powerline Freq Fingerprinting of Audio; The Folly of Scientism; Cheese - Because You're Going to Die Anyway; Another GPU Success - PyCUDA, Cross-Correlations

© 2006-2013 Andrew Cooke (site) / post authors (content).

Learn Prolog Now

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:42:03 -0300 (CLST)

Free book -
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/%7Ekris/learn-prolog-now/html/prolog-notes.pdf

Chapter 7 looks interesting - an explanation of definite clause grammars. 
I know the basic ideas behind Prolog (ie unification, Horn clauses), but
not the parsing stuff.

From this article, which went way too fast for me -
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgjpk782_619w52kj9j

Andrew

Declarative Mini-Languages in Python

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:40:38 -0300 (CLST)

This looks like a useful article -
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b11.txt

In fact, there seems to be a whole pile of them -
http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html

Andrew

about the article

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:46:24 -0300 (CLST)

Just seen this (people reply so infrequently I forget to check the spam
filter).  Andrew

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
From:    "Stefan Petrea" <stefan.petrea@...>
Date:    Tue, October 28, 2008 9:42 am
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

What part of the article did you think went too fast or was unclearly
explained ?
Your reply will help me improve it in the time to come.

Thank you

Fast Is Not Necesarily Bad

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:58:07 -0300 (CLST)

Hi - sorry for not replying earlier (I filter email submissions to my site
because of spam, and only get maybe 2 or 3 genuine comments a year, so
forget to check the filter...).

I think the problem was mainly that, although I know the basics behind
Prolog, I have never read through a "real" Prolog program.  So it wasn't
difference lists, or the DCG stuff, but all the noisy details about how
you structure something more complex than the very simple examples I read
before.

But I do not think this is a bad thing!  The web is full of very very
simple examples that show how to append a value to a list, or generate
permutations.  You should not try to reproduce that.  I learnt more from
your page when I read it (and more again now, skimming it through to
remind myself what it was all about) than I ever have done from simpler,
"too easy" pages.

I'm sorry my criticism ("way too fast") was inaccurate and unhelpful, and
I think your page is excellent as it is.  It would have been better for me
to say something like "too much detail for me to understand everything in
a few minutes of scanning"... (because of how this site is generated it's
not trivial for me to modify anything already posted, or I would do so).

Cheers,
Andrew

Comment on this post