Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
BNF links
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This is a short article that attempts to explain what BNF is, based on message <wkwwagbizn.fsf@ifi.uio.no> posted to comp.text.sgml on 16.Jun.98. Because of this it is a little rough, so if it leaves you with any unanswered questions, email me and I’ll try to explain as best I can.
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ACM has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A. M. Turing Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language, and his contributions to compiler design. Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages, including those that are indispensable software engineering tools today. The Turing Award, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing” was first awarded in 1966, and is named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing. It carries a $100,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation.
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A Place to Bury Strangers
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Saturday, 10/25 - Windish CMJ Showcase - Bowery Ballroom
Starts at 9pm
With: A Place to Bury Strangers, Crystal Antlers, Vivian Girls, Marnie Stern
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Turing Test News
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A Place to Bury Strangers
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This was, I think, the fourth time I’ve seen APTBS, but it’s still a phenomenal live show with tons of volume, violently mistreated guitars and enough strobes to make you worry about adult-onset epilepsy. The UK’s Sian Alice Group opened and was pretty good for what portion of the show I caught. I can’t really substantiate this very well, but they reminded me a bit of Bardo Pond (which I don’t like very much, but Sian Alice Group was pretty decent).
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Around about that time, the fog machine kicked in spewed into the stuffy air. Had I not been drinking so much, I would have thought this moment was fucking hilarious. I really wanted to like A Place to Bury Strangers. I wanted to be up in the front, inside of the mushroom cloud filled with high frequencies and destroyed guitar strings. But I couldn’t do it. I was coughing too much. This Oliver Ackermann fellow and his Death By Audio guitar pedals were kicking my ass, and instead of laughing, I was cursing this Total Sonic Annihilation moment.
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Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers have been building a reputation for themselves as one of the loudest bands in existence these days, and their live shows have become fairly legendary in blogland over the past year or so. And speaking of Jesus and Mary Chain– these guys are up to their ears in Psychocandy, but thankfully, that isn’t all their up to. You’ll hear quite a bit of late 80’s Wax Trax in their sound, as well as some later period Primal Scream, which sort of sounds like krautrock gone metal if you haven’t heard it.
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Taco Bell has revived its Feed the Beat contest, a contest that gives 100 bands $500 in Taco Bell bucks and provides for the winning band Taco Bell’s love and promotion (in the form of in-store plays), and among this year’s nominees are A Place to Bury Strangers, Mae Shi, Delta Spirit, and Turbo Fruits, among roughly 87 emo bands that sound like 30 Seconds to Mars off-shoots.
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Taco Bell has revived its Feed the Beat contest, a contest that gives 100 bands $500 in Taco Bell bucks and provides for the winning band Taco Bell’s love and promotion (in the form of in-store plays), and among this year’s nominees are A Place to Bury Strangers, Mae Shi, Delta Spirit, and Turbo Fruits, among roughly 87 emo bands that sound like 30 Seconds to Mars off-shoots.
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This year’s fest promises to be the best yet, with endless amazing acts including Louis XIV, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Team Robespierre, Pat McGee, Noisettes, The Whip, A Place To Bury Strangers, God Forbid, Coheed And Cambria, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Lykke Li, Yo Majesty, Beach House, Cool Kids, Crystal Castles, Del McCoury Band, Deerhoof, Donavon Frankenreiter, Gang Gang Dance, Jay Reatard, Minus The Bear, Roisin Murphy, The Dears, and Darkest Hour, who is headlining The Syndicate Metal Showcase. And that’s just a small sampling.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, ai, aptbs, turing test
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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discussion of pumping lemma. Includes a poem
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There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox. If you haven’t seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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I was disturbed by Golub’s article because the emphasis was on cheating by students and possible counteractive measures. Never did he ask the more fundamental questions: What is the purpose of an examination; Why do students cheat? Instead, he proposed that faculty become police enforcers, trying to weed out dishonest behavior. I would prefer to turn faculty into educators and mentors, guiding students to use all the resources at their disposal to solve important problems.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There are two things you should know about A Place to Bury Strangers: they are very loud and very good. They’re not loud like most rock bands are loud; they’re loud like a band that has its own line of custom effects pedals and once destroyed a rare record press just by running a tape of its recording through it is loud.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, acm, aptbs, cheating
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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In this second of nine parts focusing on a quick overview of the Python language for experienced programmers, you’ll learn how Python handles data types such as strings, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter four of Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition, written by Alex Martelli (O’Reilly; ISBN: 0596100469). Copyright © 2007 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O’Reilly Media.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Headliners A Place to Bury Strangers come heralded as the “loudest band in New York.” Although last time they were here, their postindustrial shoegaze was no match for the noise complaints of Chop Suey’s fussy neighbor. Here’s hoping they have better luck this time.
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A Place to Bury Strangers Psychedelic, heavy rock trio from Brooklyn, with Sian Alice Group and Japandroids. Biltmore Cabaret, Sept. 25, 9:30 pm, $13.00 advance at Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Testing
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A more accurate title would be “Static Checking vs. Strong Testing”
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Go see these guys when they hit your town and pick up their self-titled disc at any independent record store near you … assuming they are cool enough to carry a band like this. I am still in awe at what I witnessed for just a few minutes that day!
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Midway through the first day of the Monolith music festival I caught up the band that many have called “New York’s Loudest Band,” they are A Place to Bury Strangers and here is what singer/guitarist Oliver Ackermann and bassist Jonathan Smith had to say.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, testing, typing
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
A Place to Bury Stangers
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This is a taster of November’s release of the band’s self-titled debut album featuring five bonus tracks. The band will return to Europe in November to support fellow Brooklynites MGMT.After wowing at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival early this year (where NME declared them one of their top ten bands of the festival), they found themselves England’s hottest ticket. Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in London, with features in Kerrang! and NME
Regular Expressions
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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And the U.K. is A Place To Bury Strangers as the band tours the islands come late November / December. November 29 is Birmingham at Barfly, November 30 is Glasgow at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy and December 1 is Belfast at The Limelight. Other cities include Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and London.
Tags: a place to bury Strangers, aptbs, surface area
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Half Hour Hacks
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For an open-ended project in my Computer Science course, I wrote a program which will take any regular expression as an input and generate a NFA for recognizing that language. It can display this NFA graphically as well as generate Prolog code for simulating it and using it to match strings. (So, if you have Prolog, you could use this as an implementation of regular expressions.)
A Place to Bury Strangers
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The New York noise-rockers will kick off the tour in Birmingham on November 29, finishing up at the London ICA on December 8.
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New York based shoegazers A Place To Bury Strangers have announced some tour dates in the UK and Ireland. The band will be releasing a new version of their debut in the UK on November 2. The album will be remastered and feature new track as well. A single will also be released in the UK on October 22 titled ‘I Know I’ll See You’. The tour dates are below.
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New York rockers, A Place To Bury Strangers have announced a U.K tour to coincide with the re-release of their self-titled debut album.
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A Place to Bury Strangers: with Sian Alice Group and 800Beloved, 8 p.m. Sept. 20. Magic Stick, $10.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Apple & Dell Poser Specs
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Apple Product Environmental Specifications educate our customers about specific environmental issues as they relate to Apple products, including banned materials, energy consumption, packaging materials and battery chemistries.
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Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Originally our old guitarist was Oliver Ackerman from A Place To Bury Strangers, and when I put the band together it was based around his style of guitar playing as well.
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I know I have described in prior reviews just how massive A Place To Bury Strangers sounds live. I counted four Fender amplifier heads and seven cabinets on stage between Oliver Ackermann(Guitars/Vocals) and Jono Mofo(Bass). “Gimme Acid” was as caustic as ever as the song steadily builds before it melts into a furious white noise finale
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