Don’t complicate your code

February 22, 2011

A friend sent me a link to a blog post that discusses solutions to the Josephus problem in Perl, Ruby, …

Imitating Metapost using Haskell

February 18, 2009

Brent Yorgey has released a Haskell EDSL for creating diagrams. Here is my first impression of the library, comparing it …

February 1, 2009

Sometime back, I posted how to solve the Monty Hall problem with a million doors. Christophe Poucet wondered if I …

January 29, 2009

A Franciscan monk named Luca Paccioli wrote a book Summa de arithmetic, geometrica et proportionalitià in 1494, where is posed …

January 16, 2009

I love tinkering with my system. About a year ago, I got this crazy idea of trying different window managers …

January 10, 2009

I was a happy user of Ubuntu until a few months ago when GHC 6.10 was released. Ubuntu still had …

January 7, 2009

In order to provide intuition behind the solution of the Monty Hall problem, Antonio Cangiano says: If there were a …

January 6, 2009

n0ne showed how to translate Monte Carlo simulations of the Monty Hall Problem from Ruby and Python to Haskell. Since …

January 2, 2009

The new version of Haskell package monte-carlo by Patrick Perry adds a repeatMC function which is useful for some Monte …