In this paper we describe an alternative solution to the impedance-mismatch problem between programming and query languages: rather than embed queries in a programming language, as done in LINQ [4] systems, we embed programs in a query language, and dub the result “QINL”. We have implemented our solution in a prototype software system, FQL, available at categoricaldata.net/fql.html. Because bot...

This paper introduces a modified version of Random Indexing, a technique for dimensionality reduction based on random projections. We here describe how RI can be efficiently implemented using the notion of universal hashing. This eliminates the need to store any random vectors, replacing them instead with a small number of hash-functions, thereby dramatically reducing the memory footprint. We d...

We discuss new bounce-like (but non-time-reversal-invariant-) solutions to Euclidean equations of motion, which we dub boomerons. In the Euclidean path integral approach to quantum theories, boomerons make an imaginary contribution to the vacuum energy. The fake vacuum instabilty can be removed by cancelling boomeron contributions against contributions from time reversed boomerons (anti-boomero...

Ben Neill will present a set with the LEMUR robots and his newly redesigned mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. In this new set of future dub jazz, the LEMUR robots provide dubstep rhythms live in real time and are combined with deep sub basslines and the otherworldly sonic explorations of the mutantrumpet. Neill’s instrument allows him to interact with the robots in a variety o...

We introduce a notion of quantum cell which is invariant under linear canonical transformations. These cells, which we dub “quantum blobs”, have the essential and characteristic property that their intersection with any plane of conjugate coordinates passing through their center is an ellipse with area equal to one-half of the quantum of action. We show that this notion is particularly suitable...

We present a monadic treatment of symmetric state-based bidirectional transformations, and show how it arises naturally from the well-known asymmetric lens-based account. We introduce two presentations of a concept we dub the “entangled” state monad, and prove their equivalence. As a step towards a unifying account of bidirectionality in general, we exhibit existing classes of statebased approa...