Thomas W. Anderson <
[email protected]>. He wishes his middle initial was 'A', like in
TheMatrix. He likes
QuickChanges (<
http://c2.com/cgi/quickChanges?days=1>) and feels that it reflects wiki's immanent
TurboRealism.
Tom was formerly a student of biochemistry at
OxfordUniversity, then a
ResearchAssistant at the university's
WeatherallInstituteOfMolecularMedicine, and now is neither: at the end of September 2003, he became a PhD student in the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, at
UniversityCollegeLondon.
He thought he was just passing through the wiki, but has been here long enough that he might be around forever. However, he doesn't have a
UserName cookie set, as he doesn't believe in them; he will be
UsingSignatures when appropriate and avoid signatures the rest of the time (after all, these are
OurWordsNotYours, and, indeed,
OurWordsNotMine). He was happy to learn that
LinksAreContent.
He is not the same as any of the professors of computer science with the same name (there are several), although he is an amateur hacker - raised on the
JavaLanguage, increasingly digging
SmallTalk and the
LispLanguage, and now mostly hacking in the
PythonLanguage. He believes firmly that
ExceptionsAreOurFriends, and hopes fervently that software can be built well with
NoProcess. He thinks he invented the
ConstructorObject idiom. He is a
SecondGenerationProgrammer, being the son of
BruceAnderson; he has occasionally mown
WayneCool's lawn (but never got paid).
He uses
UnixOperatingSystems (and
MacOsx in particular) whenever he can; when he can't, he has some
MicrosoftWordComplaints.
He had an idea for a sort of
DecoratorWiki.
I'm not home right now, but you can leave a message after the line. -- ta
Tom - Please visit
ImmunityDesignPrinciples and then delete this line. --
JamesCrook Visited, read, not deleted. Ha! -- ta
Interesting. On a tangent, i occasionally think about how the idea of design patterns might be applied to biology; it would be analytical, like
AntiPatterns, rather than constructive, but it might be really interesting. Plus, someone might get to write a book called 'The Order of Nature':).
Tom, when you find a good algorithm for the
StridingAcrossSteppingStones problem, please post the details there. I'd like to see it. It's a nice chewy problem. --
MarkIrons
[Random, (as in,
OffTopic) but--SOMEONE edited the
RandomPages page!!! Guess who? That's right, the
GrammarVandal!]
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