Economic modeling software by Steve Keen, the author of Debunking Economics.
A book about the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century. What makes this book special is that works with the actual original scientific papers.
An ML-family, statically typed, functional programming language for data-parallel computations. Targets CUDA, OpenCL, and CPUs.
An interpretation of quantum mechanics that—as far as I understand—is an extension of the Copenhagen interpretation, with the main difference being that it rejects the notion of a single physical reality that is independent of the observer. Each observer, it seems to go, experiences its own Everett branch. This resolves the measurement problem.
The main difference between it and Many Worlds seems to be that Everett branches are indexed by observers rather than possibilities. In other words, observers do not split. From this it seems to me that it follows that Everett branches cannot diverge under Relational Quantum Mechanics; as soon as two observers interact with each other, their realities must synchronize, which puts constraints on the set of possible histories.
To put it in terms of Schrödinger’s Cat: If the cat survives according to its own experience, then the physicist who opens its box must find it alive. This is not true under Many Worlds, where there will be copies of the physicist who find it alive and those who find it dead.
Personally speaking, as far as Copenhagen-based interpretations go, this one seems at least not quite so insane.
I still find Many Worlds (plus decoherence) more intuitive, though.
A group of physicists, founded in 1975, that primarily discussed quantum mysticism but was apparently still pretty influential.
Interval tree clocks for Haskell.
An interval tree clock is like a vector clock except it can shrink as well as grow.
The top 3 are, as you may have expected, Chez Scheme, Gambit-C, and Racket.
A fast R⁶RS Scheme compiler. Was proprietary for a long time, but is Free Software nowadays. (GitHub: cisco/chezscheme.)
I don’t find this particularly surprising.
An annotation processor that implements Jakarta JSON-B via code generation.
Subqueries, lateral joins, and arrays. HQL is growing into a rather powerful query language.
A Java source code transformation engine, usable for refactoring, API migration, and such.
Matthew Yglesias on the housing crisis.
I wasn’t aware that zoning rules are as strict as they are. It sounds a bit insane. I wonder what it’s like in Germany—probably no better if I were to guess.
But I suppose that in addition to a NIMBY vs. YIMBY question it is also an instance of the principle of trying to protect people by taking choices away from them. I wonder how often that works.
A test suite generator for Java. Attempts to automatically generate JUnit test suites that target a given coverage criterion by searching the space of unit tests, encoding in them the current behavior of the code.
An implementation of Jakarta JSON Binding (JSON-B).
An implementation of Jakarta JSON Processing (JSON-P).