It looks like the intricacies of higher-dimensional geometry will have to wait another week; I am incredibly heads-down putting the finishing touches on VSTO and the book that Eric Carter and I are writing on VSTO. We're due to have it ready for copy...

Part three of my series on the impact of high-dimensional geometry on search algorithms will have to wait at least until after the Victoria Day weekend -- I'm crazy busy getting wedding invitations out, working on last-minute book edits and, oh yeah,...

The volume of an n-cube of edge length s is easy to work out. A 2-cube has s 2 units of area. A 3-cube has s 3 units of volume. A 4-cube has s 4 units of 4-volume, and so on -- an n-cube has s n units of n-volume. If the n-cube has edge of s>1, say...

A friend of mine over in Microsoft Research pointed out to me the other day that high-dimensional spaces are really counterintuitive. He'd just attended a lecture by the research guys who wrote this excellent paper and we were geeking out at a party about...

Here's a question about client side vs. server side scripting that I got recently: I want to get the machine name of the client the request is being made from. With ASP I can get the IP address using this code: ipaddr = Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR...

UPDATE: I am WRONG WRONG WRONG . Brendan Eich, the original creator of JavaScript, was kind enough to point out at great length that I was WRONG WRONG WRONG in my conclusions earlier today. Somehow I managed to miss the key section in the spec -- my...

The other day someone asked me about a slightly odd but very useful feature in JScript.NET, and I figure if one person asks me about it, maybe more people want to know as well. In JScript.NET you can say class alpha { var foo; class bravo { function...