Apple Macintosh and Intel
Plenty of people have weighed in on the implications of Apple switching to Intel processors for their Macintosh computers. I figure I'll add my two cents...I think there has been some inaccurate...
View ArticleFuture of AI
Starting grad school this fall for computer science. There are several concentrations available and I was looking at artificial intelligence. It appears to be frustatingly needing innovation, and I...
View ArticleMore on Intel processors, Macs, and the future of Linux
This post is in response to an opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in eWeek. This is Vaughan-Nichols second editorial on the topic and he's trying to defend his position that the Linux desktop...
View ArticleTechnorati
I have delved even further into the world of weblogging with my new technorati profile. I'm interested to see how long and how much effort it takes for an individual blog to get linked into the...
View ArticleThe BBS
Looking forward to watching BBS: The Documentary.Though I was only a whelp during the end times of the BBS, I have fond memories of playing Barren Realms Elite, downloading shareware games, and...
View ArticlePlanet Intelligence
I'd like to see if there's any interest in a planet site for weblogs that are geared towards machine intelligence, AI, neuroscience, etc. A site like this would provide a way to keep updated about what...
View ArticleThe end is near...
Not the end of the world, but of this weblog. I'm going to be moving over to a new site, dynamictyping.com, as soon as I find a good host. I'm going to test out Django and have a proper setup. Feel...
View ArticleAhhh, Django...
I've been testing out Django this past week, mostly finished the the first two tutorials. There's a lot to become familiar with, but I'm amazed at how powerful the framework is. Though I haven't done...
View ArticleFor your browsing pleasure
I came across these two posts recently: The Multiple Self and A Spooky Mind Hack.They're good reading. If you start The Multiple Self and get tired of it before finishing, go read the second...
View ArticleStemming, information filtering
I've started work on an information filtering system to assist in returning only relevant documents. I'll be using my own implementation of probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) at first. A...
View ArticlePython Rocks
I was thinking of just getting to sleep after my last post, but started fiddling with a little Python module to handle parsing words from a source into a vocabulary. Well, from the time from my last...
View ArticlePythonic file I/O?
A coworker of mine has recently been using Python on and off for basic administrative tasks and ran into a problem this week with modifying the contents of a file without rewriting the entire file. He...
View ArticleClosures in Ruby and Python
Edit: This post has come up in a recent (2008-04-27) post on reddit. For an account of where the term, closure, came from look here.While reading the the Django/RoR comparison by Sam over at...
View ArticleGoogle Talk is Live
Google has launched Google Talk.It's a Jabber service, and gmail users can use their email address and password to login to talk.google.com.What's next?
View ArticleCopyright laws and fair business transactions
Yesterday I bought a few CDs from Best Buy, but once I arrived home I realized that I was missing something. One of the CDs I purchased (or should I say decorative jewel case) was missing its, er, CD....
View Article"Java, my hero"
I now understand why so many developers on MS Windows cling to Java so tightly, it's their saviour from the hellish experience that is Microsoft Visual C++.Developing cross-platform applications on a...
View ArticleSemantic analysis with Python
I came across Reverend ("a general purpose Bayesian classifier") today after reading Peter Bengtsson's post about it. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks great. Still looking for a good PLSA, or even...
View ArticleDecision tree building and graphing in Python
Spent part of yesterday throwing together an implementation of the ID3 algorithm for building decision trees. It uses pydot for creating graphs, so the trees can be outputted in dot format (ascii, for...
View ArticleReturn of the White Spots
Having purchased my first Mac two years ago, I was enticed by processor speed improvements to become a member of Apple's public beta program by purchasing one of the first MacBook Pros.There have been...
View ArticleClosure on closures
In a previous post, closures were discussed without much being said. That was over a year ago, since then I've come across a few posts that clarify.Here's a description of the concept by comparison to...
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