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Don’t panic, winter is almost over.

Lincoln’s own unconference, Awesome Camp, is coming up soon. Are you registered yet?

I’ve been working with parsers a lot this past month. For fun, I implemented a forth interpreter in javascript.

Donald Knuth’s original paper on LR parsers - On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right.
Frank DeRemer invented LALR parsers. His PhD dissertation, Practical Translators for LR(k) Languages, is fascinating and his later paper has some great information on optimizing lookup sets.
Our Lieutenant Governor got in a bit of trouble.
Nanex uncovers more funny business in the high-speed trading world.
The yacc grammar for Ruby makes my head hurt.
Convergent encryption is one possible solution for efficent, secure data storage in “the cloud”. UCSC did research on it back in 2008. But it’s not without its share of problems.

I discovered Whiskey Myers this month. Have a listen.

The State of the Union Address.
If you put liquid nitrogen in the microwave it will boil, freeze, recrystallize, and then explode into snow.
The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore came to town to cover a snowstorm. The storm skipped over us and we learned the phrase #dryslot.

If you died and they named a unit after you, what would it measure?
- fluid dynamics class

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