Brian's Waste of Time
So the The Definitive ANTLR Reference by Terence Parr, from the PragProgs, went up in beta form today! Woot!
Aside from general excitement over having a good dead-tree ANTLR reference available, there is a cool thing I noticed in the PDF. All the code samples are linked to, what I presume will become, the text form online!
Note the "Download tour/eval/Expr.g" at the top. That is a live link in the PDF. It 404's right now, but I presume when the book is released the code will be there. That rocks. The normal "download the ode at http://example.com/foobaz.tgz" and dig through the tarball ~works, but a live link directly to the correct context is way better.
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Anneal with a Transverse Field via a Tunable Flux Capacitor
I have to wonder if it is a hoax, though, with someone named Geordi (okay, Geordie) saying, "We fix the temperature and anneal with a transverse field (equivalently by opening and closing windows for the qubits to tunnel)," and, "via a tunable flux transformer."
This is so freaking cool, last I had heard getting more than four qubits was "really freaking hard." If they have 16 in a portable demo, and plan on a thousand in the next couple years, ka-wow. As my friend Steve puts it, though, "What kind of frame rate can I expect from Quake 3?"