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(defun sacha/total-difference (list)
  "Computes the sum of the differences between successive items in LIST."
  (let ((distance 0))
    (while (cdr list)
      (setq distance (+ (abs (- (car list) (car (cdr list)))) distance))
      (setq list (cdr list)))
    distance))

On This Day...

• 2013: Emacs chat: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson — I got to chat with Thomas about Emacs and picking up configuration snippets from EmacsWiki. He’s so lucky – he [...]
• 2012: Visual book review: Enough, by Patrick Rhone — enough is a collection of essays by Patrick Rhone on the idea of having enough. He compares it to the [...]
• 2011: Shanghaippy birthday, John Grimme! Recipe: Lumpiang shanghai — John Grimme, my sister’s fiance, celebrates his birthday tomorrow. (Well, today already, given time in the Netherlands.) He gets this [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending March 21, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Work [X] Facilitate workshop in Reading [/] Find role models in sales and distribution – for [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending March 22, 2009 — From last week: Fix defects detected during Transition2 testing Update all the user documentation for Transition2. On hold until we get all [...]
• 2007: Sharing my life — This afternoon’s conversation with Quinn Fung reminded me that I need to write—not because I need approval or advice, but because [...]
• 2006: Emacs-happy — Lisp is for Entrepreneurs – Part 2 (Amazon) Emacs learning curve There’s something a bit off about the Emacs learning curve graph [...]
• 2006: Good Food Box: Avocado antics — This fortnight’s Good Food Box contains one avocado plus all the usual staples (potatoes, onions, carrots, lettuce, broccoli). I also got [...]
• 2006: Good karma: Emacs — From Paul Lussier: One day, about 2 years ago now (Holy Cow! Sacha, has it been *that* long? :) I stumbled [...]
• 2006: Sysad stuff: bah, humbug — Hacked around a bit on the engsci system. Very frustrated with ejabberd, connotea, and other servers I’ve been trying to set [...]
• 2004: Language-independent named entity recognition — http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2002/ner/
• 2004: Named entity extraction in Perl — Lingua::EN::NamedEntity
• 2003: www.i-manila.com.ph still unreachable — I can ping www.i-manila.com.ph, but I can’t initiate any TCP connections to it. longword says I’m not the only .ph who’s [...]