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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
September 29, 2007
Category: Fractals
As pointed out by a commenter, there are some really surprising places where fractal patterns can appear. For example, there was a recent post on the Wolfram mathematica blog by the engineer who writes the unlimited precision integer arithmetic...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:18 PM • 18 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Recipes
The year before our first kid was born, my wife and I went on vacation in Budapest. It was a beautiful city, and the food was wonderful - I particularly loved the chicken paprikash that they seemed to server...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:10 PM • 11 Comments •
September 27, 2007
Category: Music
Via YouTube, I came across this little gem. Who would have thought that you could create a beautiful fugue from a Britney Spears song? Fugues are one of my favorite musical forms. There's something magical (and something mathematical) about...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:36 AM • 10 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: intelligent design
As of 2/24/2008, Sewell has just responded to this, pretending that he just noticed it. To make discussions easier to follow, I have responded with a new post here, and I would appreciate it if comments could be posted there,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:23 PM • 56 Comments •
September 25, 2007
Category: Fractals
In the course of the series of posts I've been writing on fractals, several people have either emailed or commented, saying something along the lines of "Yeah, that fractal stuff is cool - but what is it good for?...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:44 PM • 13 Comments •
September 24, 2007
Category: Graph Theory
Yet another example of how graphs can be used as models to solve real problems comes from the world of project management. I tend to cringe at anything that involves management; as a former IBMer, I've dealt with my...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:28 PM • 5 Comments •
September 23, 2007
Category: Coolness
I don't remember where I found this, but it's really amazing. The 2005 conference on electron/ion microscopy gave awards for the best bizarre or art-like images produced using electron or ion microscopy. The images range from beautiful, like the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:39 PM • 4 Comments •
September 21, 2007
Category: Recipes
Since the friday pathological programming died out, I've been looking for something else to do for special friday posts. A while back, I posted a bunch of recipes for a mutant meme, and it seemed a lot of people...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:09 AM • 24 Comments •
September 18, 2007
Category: Graph Theory
There's a kind of graph which is very commonly used by people like me for analysis applications, called a lattice. A lattice is a graph with special properties that make it extremely useful for representing information in an analysis...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:09 PM • 12 Comments •
September 17, 2007
Category: intelligent design
Both in comments, and via email, I've received numerous requests to take a look at the work of Dembski and Marks, published through Professor Marks's website. The site is called the "Evolutionary Informatics Laboratory". Before getting to the paper,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:00 AM • 178 Comments •
