Monthly Archives: June 2006

Advice for new college students

Posted on 2006-06-27 by Ben Atkin

Here’s a few things that I think would have made my undergraduate career more successful: Consider waiting until after your first semester to declare a major. I started my first semester majoring in Computer Science and never really considered majoring … Continue reading →

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PLT – A community of people working on ambitious projects

Posted on 2006-06-23 by Ben Atkin

Anyone who has poked around in the Scheme or Functional Programming community has no doubt heard about PLT, or at least one of its projects, which include DrScheme and the book How To Design Programs. PLT is a group of … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp: First Impressions

Posted on 2006-06-22 by Ben Atkin

I went to my Alma Mater’s library in search of a book on Common Lisp and found Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig. The book is 946 pages long and covers both AI and … Continue reading →

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Conventional Wisdom about Spam

Posted on 2006-06-21 by Ben Atkin

Eric Sink posted an article bemoaning the current state of the web. In his footnotes is this observation: I think we need to stop saying that the spammers only continue because they make money doing it. Virus writers don’t make … Continue reading →

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