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This page, and the pages it links to, contain text of the Common Lisp book Practical Common Lisp published by Apress These pages now contain the final text as it appears in the book. If you find errors in these pages, please send email to book@gigamonkeys.com. These pages will remain online in perpetuity—I hope they will serve as a useful introduction to Common Lisp for folks who are curious about Lisp but maybe not yet curious enough to shell out big bucks for a dead-tree book and a good Common Lisp tutorial for folks who want to get down to real coding right away. However, don't let that stop you from buying the printed version available from Apress at your favorite local or online bookseller. For the complete bookstore browsing experience, you can read the letter to the reader that appears on the back cover of the treeware edition of the book.

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january 2010 by jtth

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Math Overflow

A place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions

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december 2009 by jtth

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The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages

I have written software professionally in perhaps a dozen programming languages, and the hardest language for me to learn has been R. The language is actually fairly simple, but it is unconventional. These notes are intended to make the language easier to learn for someone used to more commonly used languages such as C++, Java, Perl, etc.

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august 2009 by jtth

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A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems

The letters you are now reading, while well adapted to the eye to be read, are so ill adapted to the hand to be written that schools teach longhand as an alternative to printing them. The more cursive longhand is easy to learn, but only about 10% faster than printing. Alternative handwriting systems offer 100% or better improvements in handwriting ease and speed. If you could spend the rest of your life taking notes or keeping a journal/diary while writing two or three times faster, then, gee, why not?

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august 2009 by jtth

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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Not All Socialist Countries are Alike

Breakdown of the difference between "Single-payer" and "socialized healthcare" between Canada and the UK.

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august 2009 by jtth

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Advice on designing scientific posters

A scientific poster is a large document that can communicate your research at a scientific meeting, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your trendy experimental approach, your amazing results, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others—if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 10 minutes.

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august 2009 by jtth

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WordNet - About WordNet

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Introduction to Information Retrieval

The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Bike books
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F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Nmap Network Scanning

Nmap Network Scanning is the official guide to the Nmap Security Scanner, a free and open source utility used by millions of people for network discovery, administration, and security auditing. From explaining port scanning basics for novices to detailing low-level packet crafting methods used by advanced hackers, this book by Nmap's original author suits all levels of security and networking professionals. The reference guide documents every Nmap feature and option, while the remainder demonstrates how to apply them to quickly solve real-world tasks. Examples and diagrams show actual communication on the wire. Topics include subverting firewalls and intrusion detection systems, optimizing Nmap performance, and automating common networking tasks with the Nmap Scripting Engine.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Safari Shortcuts

A boatload of crazy hidden safari shortcuts.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Lifehacker - Know What Salary to Ask For in Your New Job - Job search

Questions about salary requirements are one of the very few questions guaranteed to come up during a job interview or screening process, as well as almost always cause some severe awkwardness on both sides. Once you've found a great job, how do you demand what you're worth without sounding arrogant? What if you toss out a low number and lock yourself in at a loss, or shoot too high and scale yourself out of the running? The web's chock-full of tools to help you gauge a reasonable asking rate, and we've received some pretty sound advice over the years on how to pull off the salary tightrope walk. Follow along for a guide to finding and asking after just the right pay rate.

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may 2009 by jtth

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English Lexicon Project - Home Page
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may 2009 by jtth

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Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk
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may 2009 by jtth

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ColoRotate: Home

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may 2009 by jtth

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Classics in the History of Psychology -- Topic Index
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may 2009 by jtth

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Statistics - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
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may 2009 by jtth

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LiteratePrograms:Welcome - LiteratePrograms
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april 2009 by jtth

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WEB色見本原色大辞典 - HTML Color Names
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april 2009 by jtth

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Where was my bike made? - allanti.com
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april 2009 by jtth

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Warcraft Census

Does just what it says.

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february 2009 by jtth

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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

Came for the splashpage, stayed for the good times.

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february 2009 by jtth

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well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing information flow in science

Interactive visualizations of scientific influence as measured through Eigenfactors.

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february 2009 by jtth

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SPARQLpedia
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january 2009 by jtth

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patternBrowser

Interface Design Patterns

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january 2009 by jtth

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Main Page - Digital Foundations

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite.

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december 2008 by jtth

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NumberSpiral.com - Home

Really cool number spiral play.

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december 2008 by jtth

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UCI Machine Learning Repository

We currently maintain 176 data sets as a service to the machine learning community. You may view all data sets through our searchable interface. Our old web site is still available, for those who prefer the old format. For a general overview of the Repository, please visit our About page. For information about citing data sets in publications, please read our citation policy. If you wish to donate a data set, please consult our donation policy. For any other questions, feel free to contact the Repository librarians. We have also set up a mirror site for the Repository.

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december 2008 by jtth

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C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++

This page summarizes the major defects of the C++ programming language (listing all minor quirks would take eternity). To be fair, some of the items by themselves could be design choices, not bugs. For example, a programming language doesn't have to provide garbage collection. It's the combination of the things that makes them all problematic. For example, the lack of garbage collection makes C++ exceptions and operator overloading inherently defective. Therefore, the problems are not listed in the order of "importance" (which is subjective anyway - different people are hit the hardest by different problems). Instead, most defects are followed by one of their complementary defects, so that when a defect causes a problem, the next defect in the list makes it worse.

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december 2008 by jtth

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Maxing out your Triangle — jackcheng.com

These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs—they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow. If you’re with me so far, then allow me to present exhibit A, the love-growth-cash triangle:

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november 2008 by jtth

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HOW TO: Troubleshooting and FAQ for Xbox
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november 2008 by jtth

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XBOX Error Codes Explained- Go Here First!
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november 2008 by jtth

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C++ FAQ LITE
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november 2008 by jtth

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Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel

Because I can't motivate myself to learn it.

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november 2008 by jtth

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6 Apps That Will Turn Your iPhone into the Ultimate Reference Book | MakeUseOf.com
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november 2008 by jtth

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Table of Contents

Numenta getting started guide.

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november 2008 by jtth

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A brief introduction to Haskell - HaskellWiki
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november 2008 by jtth

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Boris Artzybasheff

Fought with anti-communist White Russians before immigrating to US (he spoke no English and arrived with 14 cents). A chameleon, able to adapt different styles, from children's books to portraits. Renowned for his ability to turn machines into living beings (and living beings into who-knows-what). Advisor to the Psychological Warfare branch during WW II. A profuse illustrator for the majors: Life, Fortune, and Time (producing 200+ covers for the last). Illustrated 50 books, including those he wrote himself, notably "As I See." Plentiful ad work for Xerox, Shell Oil, Pan Am, Casco Power Tools, Alcoa Steamship lines, Parke Davis, Avco Manufacturing, Scotch Tape, Wickwire Spencer Steele, Vultee Aircraft, World Airways, and Parker Pens. Mechanics Illustrated profiled him with a cover story in 1954, "When Machines Come to Life."

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november 2008 by jtth

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The McCollough Effect - An On-line Science Exhibit
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november 2008 by jtth

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Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers

This tutorial discusses various techniques for using generator functions and generator expressions in the context of systems programming. This topic loosely includes files, file systems, text parsing, network programming, and programming with threads.

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november 2008 by jtth

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The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

Benchmarks of most languages, along with varying compilers, JITs, addons, etc. Very useful. I think I'm going to be learning Haskell after seeing it.

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november 2008 by jtth

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Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
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october 2008 by jtth

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Python for Lisp Programmers

This is a brief introduction to Python for Lisp programmers. (Although it wasn't my intent, Python programers have told me this page has helped them learn Lisp.) Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax (what Lisp people call "infix" or "m-lisp" syntax). One message on comp.lang.python said "I never understood why LISP was a good idea until I started playing with python." Python supports all of Lisp's essential features except macros, and you don't miss macros all that much because it does have eval, and operator overloading, and regular expression parsing, so you can create custom languages that way.

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october 2008 by jtth

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OHCHR: English (English) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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october 2008 by jtth

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Presidential Election 2008 FAQ

This is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list) for the 2008 United States Presidential Election. I need to disclose up front that I am an Obama supporter. However, with the exception of the very last question, this FAQ is designed as a collection of factual information (such as the latest poll results) and of analysis that is as objective as possible.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Peter Suber, "Glossary of First-Order Logic"
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october 2008 by jtth

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C++ Notes: Table of Contents

Some of these supplemental notes are good, others only rough drafts or half-completed. Because they are designed only to provide additional examples, summaries, or explanations where the textbook is weak, they do not cover many obviously important topics. You can download a zipped version: notes-cpp-2004-12-19.zip [less than 400 KB]. -- Fred

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september 2008 by jtth

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Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow
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september 2008 by jtth

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10 Easy Arithmetic Tricks - The List Universe

Math can be terrifying for many people. This list will hopefully improve your general knowledge of mathematical tricks and your speed when you need to do math in your head.

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september 2008 by jtth

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Table of Contents: the Standard Template Library

A total reference of the C++ standard template library.

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september 2008 by jtth

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NIST Computer Security Special Publications

Special Publications in the 800 series present documents of general interest to the computer security community. The Special Publication 800 series was established in 1990 to provide a separate identity for information technology security publications. This Special Publication 800 series reports on ITL's research, guidelines, and outreach efforts in computer security, and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.

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september 2008 by jtth

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The C Library Reference Guide
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august 2008 by jtth

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Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable — Reviews and News from Audioholics

The best legal response to an IP infringement letter... ever.

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august 2008 by jtth

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[exclusive] Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency

Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting almost 4 years), The Memory Hole has obtained blank copies of most forms used by the National Security Agency).

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july 2008 by jtth

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Bikesport Michigan Online - Editorial

Describes the difference betwen TT/Tri and Road bike frame geometry

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july 2008 by jtth

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gittutorial(7)

Intro to git. I'm gettign skiddish about modifying my little partner parser.

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july 2008 by jtth

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Colorful Animation Expressions: Color in 101 Dalmatians: an introduction

Over the past few weeks I’ve been analyzing 101 Dalmatians shot by shot. Of course, most of what I’ll comment on could be found in any good film or painting. But I’m mainly interested in how the subtext of this specific story is told through color.

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july 2008 by jtth

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UPDATED: 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists <> Zero Intelligence Agents
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july 2008 by jtth

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Advanced techniques for using the UNIX find command

Awesome illustration of advanced usage of the unix "find" command.

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july 2008 by jtth

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