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Archives for 1998

Read – The E-Myth Revisited

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Today I finished reading “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It” by Michael E. Gerber

Paper – Mini-indexes for literate programs

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Today I read a paper titled “Mini-indexes for literate programs”

The abstract is:
This paper describes how to implement a documentation technique that helps readers to understand large programs or collections of programs, by providing local indexes to all identifiers that are visible on every two-page spread.

A detailed example is given for a program that finds all Hamiltonian circuits in an undirected graph..

Paper – Teleo-Reactive Programs for Agent Control

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Today I read a paper titled “Teleo-Reactive Programs for Agent Control”

The abstract is:
A formalism is presented for computing and organizing actions for autonomous agents in dynamic environments.

We introduce the notion of teleo-reactive (T-R) programs whose execution entails the construction of circuitry for the continuous computation of the parameters and conditions on which agent action is based.

In addition to continuous feedback, T-R programs support parameter binding and recursion.

A primary difference between T-R programs and many other circuit-based systems is that the circuitry of T-R programs is more compact; it is constructed at run time and thus does not have to anticipate all the contingencies that might arise over all possible runs.

In addition, T-R programs are intuitive and easy to write and are written in a form that is compatible with automatic planning and learning methods.

We briefly describe some experimental applications of T-R programs in the control of simulated and actual mobile robots..

Read – SPIN Selling

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Today I finished reading “SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff” by Neil Rackham

Studying – European art history

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This month I am studying “European art history”

MOMA has another one of those exhibits, decided to indulge in a one day workshop

This is a one day instructor lead workshop at the MOMA

Update: My mistake, it is actually a four week, two nights a week in-person, instructor lead class.

Update #2: Slow paced class. Mostly reading and discussion. Should have picked something else to study alongside this. Thank goodness it is only a four week (two nights a week) class.

Studying – Fundamentals of art history

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This month I am studying “Fundamentals of art history” and also continuing with the third month of “Female character drawing”

MOMA is having a special exhibit, along with a couple of workshops.

The “Fundamentals of art history” is a one day instructor lead workshop at the MOMA. 3rd month of “Female Character Drawing”

Scrolling forever

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Paging through content, one page at a time, waiting for it to load each time is labourious.

I want to be able to just keep scrolling.

When my scroll bar reaches the bottom of the current content I want to be able to detect that and then immediately download the next page of content.

Adults Responsible

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I have taken on too much adult responsibility when I am clearly not an adult.

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