This is an open letter from me (= Shlomi Fish) to Ms. Sarah Michelle Gellar (the Hollywood film and television actress) about the production of a documentary film titled “Summerschool at the NSA” which will document what is really going on in the NSA headquarters. I can always be contacted about that, whether by Ms. Gellar or by whoever wishes to using numerous online and unobscured means.

Working on a new book about how to defend yourself against the idiocy of government policy. See it here: MicroSecession.

At one time, Wikipedia was a universal source for the useful programming tools and resources. If some language, framework or tool was used in general, it has been covered there. However recently Wikipedia seems raising the requirements to the level that would exclude many useful Free software projects. For instance, recently JAMWiki has been removed - reasonably popular, thousands of downloads (and that is for server side app), mentioned in near every review on Java-based wiki engines over multiple sources on the web - where it has been a problem?

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and my own musing on the rising suicide rate among many armed force veterans etc.. etc..

ARM have announced the ARMv8. The most interesting thing about it is
the "A64" instruction set architecture, which makes the new ARM a full
64-bit processor. They haven't extended the 32-bit ISA but created an
all-new one: in many ways the 32-bit and 64-bit versions are quite
different. So, to take advantage of the A64, we're going to need new
compilers and Java virtual machines. At Red Hat we've decided to do a
port of OpenJDK to the A64. This will be completely free software,
and we will invite others to participate.

The Freecell Solver project, which develops a free and open-source software framework for solving layouts of Freecell (also known as “FreeCell”), and several similar Solitaire variants is seeking assistance in the form of a provision of direct or indirect access to high performance computing (HPC) hardware, namely computers with large amounts of accessible RAM (128 GB or so or more), large amounts of hard disk space (about 10 GB - less than RAM - should be enough), and good reliability.

I recently wrote a tool called PipeController to experiment with pipe-like programs in Python. It does not work the same as UNIX pipes, which do IPC between programs/processes. Rather, it enables a sort of pipelined communication between multiple functions in a single Python program/process. A blog post about it (with an example of how it can be used to run a "pipe" incrementally), and a link to download PipeController v0.2, is here:
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/using-pipecontroller-to-run-pipe.html

Retired medical director, author of 'Nine Pillars of History', Gunnar Sevelius, M.D. asked help to get his message out. As a reader of his books, I feel very much obliged to fulfill his wish and obey his order.

And here's my thank-you note to him after receiving ~4000 word of his writing on the subject.

"My understanding is that the cost of health care in human society or any of the nine pillars you fashioned in your book, ought not to be 'controlled' by any ruling party or one ideological system but ought to be built 'open' and 'fair' on moral ground which follows commandments that each willing participant is allowed to exercise his own interpretative power to its utmost human capacity.

Of course my above statement can still be regarded as pure preaching or rhetorical. Yet your writing cleared up my thinking process. I thank you for your work and your dedication to our health care. I hope people of United States have the will to rewrite and reconfigure our healthcare law/policy into a new constitutional amendment . And thus the whole world can use our system as an examplified copy of Western democracy at its best'

"The Pirahã maelstrom has had two vortices: recursion, and the language–culture connection."

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source: Daniel Harbour - staunch chomskite

"Turduckens and iphones may seem like silly metaphors, but they reveal, in familiar and concrete terms, Everett’s errors in logic (arguing from irrelevant data) and in understanding (the crucial distinction between linguistic hardware versus its use in a given language). This does not bode well."

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