Current reading

Wadler’s influential “monads” paper for Haskell. It seems like a classic case of making something simple sound profound and mysterious.  And companion paper by Hughes on “why functional programming matters” . See also some comments above. McCarthy’s original LISP paper.  Just

Boeing security

So the court said Matthew Neumann and Nicholas Tides were properly fired in 2008 for violating company policy of disclosing company information to the media, in this case the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, without company authorization. In 2007, the PI wrote: “Boeing and

The wizards of finance

“This latest incident and the previous Chuetsu-Oki earthquake indicate that the business risk of operating nuclear power plants in Japan is higher than previously contemplated,” Moody’s analysts including Kenji Okamoto said in a note, putting the company [TEPCO] on a review