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Sonntag, 14. Mai 2006

Brendan Eich: JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web

"Free Advice That We Hear:

Leave it alone
Revise it in big, incompatible ways
Fix it just a little bit (for 90 different values of little bit)
Don't turn it into Java!
Turn it into Python"

Packages, optional type annotations, let (block-scoped) variables, iterators, generators, array comprehensions, destructuring assignment, map &c., operators, string[i]; first features (the marked ones) available starting with Firefox 1.7, planned for fall; plan for IE: compile to JS1.

2006-05-14-freeAdvice

The Rockstar formerly known as neo is no more.

† Rockstar Vienna, 2006-05-11.

2006-05-14-goneo

Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George of Numenta recently published a whitepaper giving ~~yet another~~ a high-level overview of their HTM framework.

"A complete mathematical description of the algorithms described in this paper is available from Numenta under license."

Hierarchical Temporal Memory: Concepts, Theory, and Terminology

Not quite unrelated: "Imagine hyperintelligence originating from a hedonistic bisexual sisterhood of bonobos ..."

2006-05-14-numemo

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