LISP at work!?!?!

I get to use LISP at work! A standard CAD program, Cadence's icfb, uses a SKILL-based API. SKILL has a LISP-like syntax. I need to automate creation of a large number of cells, and the SKILL API is the easiest way to do that. This is going to be awesome!

Kwality

Stay classy, Adobe.

Science disappoints

Nothing makes me distrust a journal as much as ignorance of the state-of-art.

From a 2008 article in Nature Photonics!:

To date it has been thought that APDs are unable to measure the number of photons in a pulse of radiation or a short time interval.

And yet, from an article published four years earlier about APDs, we see:

A technique has been developed and tested that permits estimation of the photon number involved in a detection process.

Wow. Just wow. I would have thought the reviewing process for Nature Photonics would be rigorous. I guess you can't believe everything you read.

Open source!

I'm going to be creating an open source library with all of my models - woohoo! Now if only I could decide on which license to use - current contenders are BSD, MIT, GPL and apache. Hmmmm.