Marching life

Grand Pleasures with yellow light bulbs. Taste of espresso summoning from the long tranquil. Single entry on a vacancy of four.

The big rewind

Efficiency and models of virtual economies. Gold Farming and implications of investment-free outsourcing. Property testing and Szemerédi regularity lemma.

Voidbase queue persistence via Apache Avro. Streams not closing, cursor advance errors. Abuse EOFException to create Iterator. Handbook of Computational Econometrics on the bench. Elements revisited. Euclid's ideas as edifice of modern thought.

EDSAC and glory days of Econometrics at Cambridge. The dawn of Mark I era. Stressing the Klein-Goldberg model.

Diaries Of Recycled Helix

Distributed transactional log service. Lustre node failure handling. Traveling.

Facebook Scribe in action. Simple referent netty implementation. Eventual consistency by lazy map/reduce merging of independently-persisted queue data. Quick&Dirty java memcached client. Grand unified service stats tracking protocol.

Solid finale.

The Blueprint

Nuclear DNA. Eternal polymers and all the chemistry. Majestic carbon, in vitro.

C:H:O:N:S | amino acids as protein building blocks. Insulin as amino mix. Tape sequence analysis. Turing machine. Thymine facing adenine, guanine versus cytosine. Perpetual oppositions. Redundancy in service of O(1) replication.

Infinite string matching. Palindromic nature. DNA -> protein translations. Organic lookup tables. Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby. Bitter frost of the expectant spring. Error-Correcting codes ? Calling Shannon ... .

The low-hanging fruit. Heraclitus redux.

Doubt Regression

Thursday morning. Not exactly what The Pogues were saying. Chicken-and-egg situations in project builds. Again.

My .net / j2ee soap interoperability sorrow: Web Services Interoperability Soup.

N-way layered abstraction waffle. Antifolk. Transactional logging.

Creating Context

Ground-level pity clouds. Two days chasing red line. What was won soon was lost. Curse of the machine comes at the cost. Estimating local dimension. Training procedure by benchmarking on artificially-generated noisy scenarios. "All warfare is based on deception". Safety ? Is that the ultimate goal ?

JAX-WS, again :/

Mean Reversion

Tech rebound, the news say. Vast armies of savvy investors ready to pitch their dollar for the signs of hope for the next big one.

Reflecting on the 2009 djia. No wonder Goldman had such a spectacular year - the big rebound started in at Mar 06. From 6626.94 rock bottom to 10k dow in mid-October. It could have been a bad year only for illiquid ones. But, let's see what happens now when the bear had arrived. Funny businessweek article. - breed 'em then buy 'em is a great model, but what about moral hazard implications ?

Fluctuating economy. No rock to stand on. The next best things is finding right angle confluence of laminar flows.

The Risiko board game. Growing cultures behind closet doors, the corporate glass gardens. Microcosms of it's own. Additivity taxonomies for base set of random variable statistics. In search of a reference. Covariance - raison d'être of portfolio theory.

Scattered particles filling the void. An empty promise. A glimpse of hope. At least the Liar's Poker is over.