Let’s admit it, Lisp coders are on average very smart, but so are the early ruby adapters .. and they get only on average $60k. Sniff ..

Short update, before the conference on Nov 4 and 5.

• We are still evaluating whether we should get a bigger room. Sofar we have about 30 people that confirmed that they will show up. We have space for 50 people and might simple close the conference registration once we are fully booked and overbooked by 5% like these airline companies.
• O’Reilly might give a free book to every speaker. Please add to the wiki what book you want. I will send off our wish list o O’Reilly around Oct 5.
• Please put titles of your talks in the wiki, so that some structure will emerge. In the worst case we do a "planing-game" at the start of the conference and quickly produce the program as we did last year.
• Get-Togethers will be announced in the wiki till Friday this week.

Looking forward to see you all again this year!

> Hi all,

 > When you are programming, what kind of music or which song you love to
 > hear? Is it classic music, piano, or pop music? Is it by male singer or
 > by female singer?

 I don't listen to music as such; I listen to an 8-second mp3-loop of my
 manager screeching, puce-faced, at the top voice, "WTF is taking you so
 long?!?! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! WTF AM I PAYING YOUR
 SALARY FOR?!?! RELEASE THE F%#KING CODE, YOUR WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING,
 INTOLERABLE PIECE OF S@&T!!!"

 > I think sometime hearing music would be helpful in
 > our productivity, right?

 I find that this mp3-loop truly helps <TWITCH> my productivity. I love
 <TWITCH> my manager, and dream of him <TWITCH><TWITCH><releases safety>
 often ...

 > Regards,
 > Sam Huang
 .ed

A great short film about William Blake’s poem "The Tyger".

www.guilherme.tv/tyger

wiki

 Euruko06, the European Ruby Conference,
 will be in Munich, November 4 and 5, 2006.

 ******************************************
 * Conference wiki: http://www.euruko.com *
 ******************************************

 This year, we'll meet in a hotel in Munich,
 locations are being searched for. If you know
 of a good place, let us know, too.

 The conference will begin at 10 AM on Saturday and
 end sometime on Sunday.

 ******************************************
 * matz has offered to give us a          *
 * Skype video message.                   *
 ******************************************

 Audience:      Everybody interested in Ruby is most welcome!
 Fee:           minimal fee of 20 EUR, T-Shirts will be extra
                (cash in small unmarked bills)
 Registration:  wiki at http://www.euruko.com, follow the link
                to the Visitors' Page.

 Talks:         If you want to give a talk, please put down
                topic (an short description) on the wiki, too.

 ******************************************
 * Design the conference T-Shirt          *
 * or I'll do it again ...                *
 ******************************************

 If you have questions drop us a note at
 euruk...@euruko.com

 See you in Munich,

We have been using R and ruby since 1998.

Please send requests to armin (at) approximity.com.

Make sure you read the entire article

Read the full story.

Make sure you check out Inselberg’s homepage.

Very fascinating slides. Absolutely worth reading.

To fully understand it, you need a good knowledge of C and Ruby. The original book includes a Ruby tutorial (chapter 1), but it has not been translated yet, and we think there are more important chapters to translate first. So if you have not done it yet, you should read a book like the Pickaxe first.

Please note that this book was based on the source code of ruby 1.7.3 so there are a few small differences to the current version of ruby. However, these differences may make the source code simpler to understand and the Ruby Hacking Guide is a good starting point before looking into the ruby source code. The version of the source code used can be downloaded here: i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/ar/ruby-rhg.tar.gz.

Many thanks to RubyForge for hosting us and to Minero AOKI for letting us translate his work.

rhg.rubyforge.org/

• R graphical manuals (this is awesome page as there are all help pages of all packages on CRAN and probably even more and all graphics examples are displayed! - more than 8000 images!)

bg9.imslab.co.jp/Rhelp/

This is a very nice addition to already existing R graph and movies galleries

• R Graph Gallery

addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/

• R Movies Gallery

addictedtor.free.fr/movies/

xp123.com/xplor/xp0605/index.shtml

Amazing video. I want one!

This morning I watched Kevin Kelly’s "The next 50 years of science".

The scientific method which provides us with so many … all technological goodies does not resemble the science of 1600. Ever since Bacon, science has undergone a slow evolution.

Landmarks in the history of the scientific method are the invention of libraries, indexes, citations, controlled experiments, peer review, placebos, double blind experiments, randomization, and search among others. At the core of the scientific method is the structuring of information.

In the next 50 years, as the technologies of information and knowledge accelerate, the nature of the scientific process will change even more than it has in the last 400 years. We can’t predict what specific inventions will arise in the next 50 years, but based on long-term trends in epistemic tools, I believe we can speculate on how the scientific method itself — that is, how we know — will change in the next five decades