edoneel daily - daily stuff on random subjects


I've moved to sdf, a very cool public access unix system. The new url is http://edoneel.chaosnet.org

29 Mar 2005

Lisp

Lisps for MacOS/X

GCMs

The latest incarnation of the GISS series of coupled atmosphere-ocean models is now available. Called ModelE, it is a complete rewrite of Model II' physics, combined with greater flexibility and more options. These include better representations of the stratosphere, tracer components and various ocean models. g95 almost runs it

Markets

(Why) You Suck at Investing. The mind is better suited for "hunting and gathering" than it is for understanding Bayesian analysis.

25 Mar 2005

Squeak

Squeak 3.7-7 Unix VM is out

A squeak links page

24 Mar 2005

Misc

Tim O'Reilly's Radar

Games

The Future of Content - What I learned about content from the Sims. ...and why it's driven me to procedural methods. ...And what I now plan to do with them.

23 Mar 2005

Perl

Higher Order Perl

DHTML

DHTML leaks like a Sieve. This could also be titled why not to use reference counting.

Collabration

Collabrank

Swarms

SwarmFest2005

22 Mar 2005

MacOS/X

Got the port of OSA done for now. It needed the cctools installer and also the g95 installer for the compilers, and then there were only small details.

DHCP for MacOS/X

OpenMCL 0.14.3 is out

Common Lisps for MacOS/X. Also here

Econ

Fab labs

PBXs

Build your own PBX

Programming

Adobe Releases Adam and Eve

Simple grid protocol in lisp

LShift is a pure technology company with experience of developing complex solutions for large companies.

NetLogo is a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment

Games

Game Gardens

The Experimental Gameplay Project: create 50 to 100 games in 1 semester. New games every week.

OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

MBAs

The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program

18 Mar 2005

Books

Web Design Garage book review

Misc

code.google.com

Games

Wonderland Burn the House down

Experimental gameplay project

16 Mar 2005

Econ

HedgedFund.org's Internet Links of Interest

Web

Butler enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things.

It uses GreaseMonkey, a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (user scripts) to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction.

Graphics

3dJournal is a demonstration of live sketching, written for TablePC .NET platform in C# with Pen SDK.

3D Virtualization Edges Toward the Mainstream

Games

Will Wright presents Spore, a new way to think about games. Now that I've read the article this is quite cool.

DarwinPond

15 Mar 2005

Graphics

SaarCOR - A Hardware Architecture for Real Time Ray Tracing

3D Virtualization Edges Toward the Mainstream

11 Mar 2005

MacOSX

Got the new Powerbook for the OSA port. The first thing I keep forgetting is the debug menu for Safari. It's enabled by

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
      

Evolutionary Computing

Linux Kernel Genetic Library

Startups

How to Start a Startup

08 Mar 2005

Games

GDC 2005 is on now. Someone blogged Raphs's keynote. Raph wrote Theory of Fun for Game Design.

There is alot more on the GDC 2005 at Wonderland

07 Mar 2005

Stocks

Berkshire Hathaway's 2004 letter is out

Evolutionary Computing

6th WSEAS EC'05 - Evolutionary Computing 2005, June 16-18, 2005 - Lisbon, Portugal

Grids

SGE web Monitoring

03 Mar 2005

Google Maps

Nice description of how google maps work

Squeak

Two pages on using ImageSegments. here and here

02 Mar 2005

Squeak

Neat small system to run squeak on

Traits -- Composable Units of Behavior

New Modules

E in a Walnut

MacPPC systems

I now have an ancient Performa 5300 sitting on my disk from the trash. An ethernet card is here and linux is here. Sadly NetBSD does not run on NuBus macs

01 Mar 2005

Evolutionary Computation

Evolutionary Computation in Industry: A complete reference

Evolutionary Economics

Both Herbert Dawid and Michael Kopel have published some papers

Agent-Based Models for Economic Policy Design - (ACEPOL05)

Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management

Econ

Peter Gosselin on Inequality and Risk

Squeak

Swiki 1.4 ("Winterlong")


Bruce O'Neel

Last modified: Tue Mar 29 16:47:24 MEST 2005