Is deferred a use of continuation passing style? In a sense. continuation is a representation of some of the execution state of a program Adding deferred callbacks defines a sequence of continuations. At each step, the deferred process calls the next function in the callback sequence using the data returned from the previous call. It’s [...]
Some font posts: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html http://artofcode.com/fontfocus/ http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx Fonts, like FCC auctions, are very important, interesting from many perspectives, and something I’m just glad I can benefit from without having to worry too much.
I’m clearing out my draft posts, without actually trying to flesh them out. Anyway, here’s some questions I’m thinking about. As you may be able to infer, I’m trying to teach myself statistics. Natural conjugate priors – prior has the same functional form as the likelihood. Is there a category theoretical explanation of “natural” in [...]
Deconstruction is parasitic in that rather than espousing yet another grand narrative, or theory about the nature of the world in which we partake, it restricts itself to distorting already existing narratives, and to revealing the dualistic hierarchies they conceal. Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and [...]