I had the idea to do an asynchronous Game Of Life in the browser using clojurescript’s core.async. I thought it would be fun if there was no global state, no external time and no datastructures - have the cells be channels just signalling to their neighbours »
I compiled a list of Communicating Sequential Processes / core.async links for a friend after my Great British Node Conf lightning talk so thought I would share them here too. Go talks I still think the best intro to CSP is these talks from Rob Pike »
This post is another update to my Lisp In Summer Projects project. I blogged before (1 2) about warm-up exercises but I have not yet explained the goal, I intend writing an Artificial Life simulation where the organisms themselves are Lisp programs that »
My last post about automata was light on code, mostly because I got tired and lost some time doing the simulations inside the post in a way that worked in Firefox and Chrome. This was as a warmup exercise for Lisp In Summer Projects, if you like Lisp »
A few months ago I reread Simon Peyton Joneses article on STM in the Beautiful Code book and decided to try and translate it into clojures STM See the paper here He says ‘Atomic blocks as we have introduced them so far are utterly inadequate to coordinate »
This year I did the Facebook Hacker Cup again. I didn’t do as well as last year, only getting to the first round and solving just one problem. It was interesting and fun though. I was in position 1952 of about 10,000 with 877 people solving more problems »