Recently, a friend of mine pointed out a concurrent implementation of Eratosthenes' prime sieve expressed in google’s Go programming language. I couldn’t resist trying a Haskell version of that same approach.

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Recently, Randall Munroe held a guest week where some of his favourite cartoonists drew for him on xkcd. (RM was going through a family illness.) I love xkcd, so I got curious about what RM likes and decided to jot down links to all of them I could find. Here they are – xkcd – A tribute link to the ever brilliant RM. Zach Weiner – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Jeffrey Rowland – Overcompensating Bill Amend – Foxtrot David Troupes – Buttercup Festival Jeph Jacques – Questionable Content Ryan North – Dinosaur Comics E Horne and J Comeau – A Softer World Nicholas Gurewich – The Perry Bible Fellowship Kazu Kibuishi – Cooper Chris Onstad – Achewood David Malki – Wondermark Jessica Hagy – Indexed