brainstorms

Thursday February 09, 2006

recent technical paper pile

brian cantrill, hidden in plain sight
wheeler, countering trusting trust through diverse double compiling
margo seltzer, beyond relational databases
matt austern, towards standardization of dynamic libraries
veli mäkinen and gonzalo navarro, optimal incremental sorting
norman ramsey, et al. design principles for machine description languages
sleepycat, getting started with berkeley db java edition
aske simon christensen et al, precise analysis of string expressions
govindavajhala and appel, windows access control demystified
kulkarni, douglis et al. redundancy elimination within large collection of files

origin of bright (n)

in critical essays, misattributions show laziness, sloppiness, and undermine the critical effort.

there has now been a number of lightweight reviews of dennett's breaking the spell, where the reviewers did not know where the term bright [noun] came from, could not be bothered to look it up [say, in wikipedia], and have attributed it to dennett. [he wrote a supportive essay about it. others have too...]

the term bright was coined by Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell.

related link: the-brights.net

[yes i am.]