Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Phonetics: 2500 year old Sanskrit grammar in BNF form

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In last post I talked about the Syntax parsing and special X-Bar theory that applies to the natural languages. In this post we'll start...

Syntax: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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In 1957, the father of modern linguistics Naom Chomsky came up with a sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as an exam...

My JVM dream, now 20 years later..

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Back in 1996, I first encountered Java Virtual Machine while still in collage. And immediately fell in love. But worse - I got obsessed wit...

Scarce Data Problem: Mysterious Indus Valley Script

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Once upon a time, nearly  5000  years ago there was an urban Civilization with  1000 planned Cities  across the North-Western India. It is ...
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Managing Projects: Software By Numbers

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I read a wonderful book in 2004 named  Software By Numbers  by Mark Denne, Jane Cleland-Huang. It introduced the concept of   "Minimum...
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Look Ma No Locks - Act III - "STRONG" Eventual Consistency with CRTDs and other Geeky Stuff

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In Act-I we saw that  Consistency  and  Serializability  were the goals of our Hero Developer was striving for, the plot started with the b...

Look Ma, No Locks - Act II - Tunable Consistency

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 The last post described why our industry started using locks excessively in database system to achieve Serializable transactions. The conf...

Look Ma, No Locks - Act I

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I have seen too many people signing up for "SQL vs NoSQL war" without understanding what exactly they are fighting for and more i...

Einstein and Time Travel in Distributed Systems

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Exactly 100 years ago this month in Nov 1915 Einstein published his Field Equations and forever changed the physics and our understanding o...
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