Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Lean Software Development (pdf)
Handles: "A Handy Guide To Handling Handles"

Saturday, September 27, 2003

PinYin

Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Amazon's best selling, best reviewed Chinese-English dictionary : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, which uses the new (zipu) system of character trees.

Learning Chinese Online

Friday, September 26, 2003

The potential power of 'Software Patents' to destroy Crystallographic Software; Crystallographic Software Development; and Crystallography's Future. by Lachlan M. D. Cranswick - part of Software Patents Involving Crystallography - CCP14 Homepage


Many Software Patents patent the trivial, but describe their claims in complicated "patent speak". This can also help mask the patenting of an "idea", as though it was really a novel, non-trivial "invention".

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Macrophage and Bacterium 2,000,000X
Jörg's USEFUL and UGLY pages
LLL algorithm:

A lattice reduction algorithm, named after discoverers Lenstra, Lenstra, and Lovasz (1982), that produces a lattice basis of "short" vectors.

Lenstra, A. K.; Lenstra, H. W.; and Lovasz, L. "Factoring Polynomials with Rational Coefficients." Math. Ann. 261, 515-534, 1982.

Keith Matthews' LLL page
No Title: "Basis Reduction Algorithms and
Subset Sum Problems "
Kovar/Hall: "Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass"

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

ACE : a GAP 4 package - Chapters
Advanced Coset Enumerator

Coset Enumeration
GAP - Groups, Algorithms and Programming.
3-D Crystals: "The Total Symmetry of Three-dimensional Crystals"

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Java Desktop System
Mystic Microsoft:� Spiritual Transformation in the Halls of High Technology by Kraig Brockschmidt
Soapbox: Humans should not have to grok XML: "Humans should not have to grok XML"
grieve with me, blue master chickenz: "bloody hell, you left it turned on all night!"
A garbage collector for C and C++

The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

Friday, September 19, 2003