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Scheme Distribution Email Lists

Here is a collection of email lists for some popular Scheme distributions.

There are plenty of indexes of Scheme distributions out there; but all that I wanted was a convenient index to all of the active email lists.

Ocaml Batteries Included 1.0.0 Released

The Batteries Included project has come under new management since David Teller moved on. The project has gone through a process of reorganization and is finally ready for a release. We’ve rethought a lot of the structure decisions of the old codebase to make it easier to use and develop.

(via Caml-list)

How to get your UID with PLT Scheme under UNIX

Via Eli on comp.lang.scheme:

#lang scheme
;; using the /proc filesystem
(call-with-input-file "/proc/self/loginuid" read)
;; running `id'
(require scheme/system)
(let ([o (open-output-string)])
  (parameterize ([current-output-port o]) (system "id -u"))
  (read (open-input-string (get-output-string o))))
;; calling getuid()
(require scheme/foreign)
(unsafe!)
((get-ffi-obj 'getuid #f (_fun -> _int)))

Adding Unicode Fonts to Windows

Today I set up pretty-mode.el and found that the laptop had all of the Unicode fonts but the desktop did not. I ended up installing Arial Unicode MS as suggested by unicode.org, and that installed all of the missing fonts.

If you have Microsoft Office 2000 and newer versions, you can get the Arial Unicode MS font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose Add or Remove Features. Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.

Fall 2009 Classes

In Fall of 2009 I took one class:
MSCS 6010: Probability which used Statistical Inference, Second edition by Casella & Berger.
Addendum: 01/23/10
Here is the syllabus for the course.

REBOL GUI for OS X Available

It is available here.

(via Carl)

Some Favorite OCaml Editors

Being interested in a good editor for OCaml, I was happy to have people share what are their favorite editors here (caml-list):

Chamo
Eclipse + OcaIDE
Emacs + tuareg-mode
Kate
NEdit + syntax highlighting patterns available from n8gray.org
SciTE
VIM
XEmacs

OCaml Recommended Reading

Geoff recommended the following books for getting started with OCaml via this comment:

Introduction to Objective Caml by Jason Hickey
Developing Applications With Objective Caml by Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury and Bruno Pagano
OCaml for Scientists by Dr. Jon D. Harrop

Final Probability Update

This past December, on the fifteenth, I completed the Probability class that I was attending.
We covered Probability from the theoretical (Calculus) and analytical (MATLAB) side of things. In my first foray into theory behind Statistics, I found the relationships between the distributions to be really neat to see, and along with the Calculus, a lot to chew on all at once ;).
Overall it was a lot of fun; I can’t wait to get started with Simulation on the eighteenth.

Common Food Measurement Related Conversions

Here are some common food measurement related conversions:

1 US cup = 8 US fluid ounces
1 US cup = 236.588237 ml
1 US fluid ounce = 29.5735296 ml

(via google)