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Daily Archives: August 18, 2007

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Physics, Technology for good or ill

“Physics is to the rest of science what machine tools are to engineering. A corollary is that science places power in our hands which can be used for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout the ages from gunpowder…

On Self-Modifying Code and the Space Shuttle OS

I was doing some reading about Metaprogramming and Self-modifying code at Wikipedia, a fascinating topic with many uses from optimization, patching, and genetic programming. And it reminded me of my days during the early 1990s working as a software engineer on the Space…