Human beings were made to move, we are descendants of hunter gatherer whose minds have started interfacing with machines leaving our bodies behind. Exercise is important and though many have heard it before, for the vast majority that advice goes unheeded. I don't think this should be the case at all and I wanted to share a few of my experience in beginning exercise.

I have always been curious about Google and what its applications are based on. It turns out it's Java, Python, C++, and SWIG. SWIG is used to tie Python and C++ code together. Here's an entire transcript from PyCon 2005 that details what exactly Google does with its software.

TITLE OF PAPER: Python at Google
URL OF PRESENTATION: --not available--
PRESENTED BY: Greg Stein
REPRESENTING: Google

CONFERENCE: PyCon 2005
DATE: March 25, 2005
LOCATION: Marvin Theater
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Recently someone was making a claim that semantics and syntax are by far the most important parts of knowing a language, I have to say I disagree almost completely. Knowing syntax and semantics of a language is almost useless — for instance I can write you some python (I am familiar with the syntax, definitions, indentation, etc.), but I could hardly implement a common search algorithm that I could implement in C, or heck even assembly. When you start learning a language the semantics and syntax are important.