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An interesting article about how to think about designing Artificial Intelligence for playing poker. It’s high level but gives you a good feel about how this writer went about the design. You also learn the basics of Poker at the sa...
Read more →Over the last several months I’ve been following a series of blog postings by Jamis Buckon the esoteric and quirky topic of writing programs to design mazes. For reasons that are not clear, Jamis developed an obsession with mazes and has collected a series of articl...
Read more →If you work with non-profit projects that collect or disseminate large amounts of public data, you would find this interesting. Amazon offers FREE storage for huge public datasets. So in otherwords, Amazon’s ‘cloud based’ storage service (known as S3) will offer, f...
Read more →This article is called “Fact and Folklore In Software Engineering” and while it is about that, the part that was more interesting to me was the first section talking about Scientific Discourse: > “This article is about why some “facts” refuse to die, a...
Read more →A seminal article about an advanced topic in software testing: Mocks aren’t Subs > “The term ‘Mock Objects’ has become a popular one to describe special case objects that mimic real objects for testing. Most language environments now have fra...
Read more →This is actually a keynote to a conference, but it had some very interesting ideas in it. The article is called “The New Science of Morality” and it’s by Jonathan Haidt. I don’t know if it makes full sense out of context, but read thi...
Read more →I recommend this article, “Fatboy in A Lean World”, (by Gordon Guthrie) if you are interested in ‘lean’ as in Lean Startups, Lean Production. About why lean production is becoming so hot...
Read more →Michael Arringtonis a famous Tech-pundit-commentator-blogger who recently left or got fired from AOL because he wanted to be a VC while being a journalist covering the companies he is investing in. One way or another that led him and AOL and the su...
Read more →I heard yesterday that there is “at least one farm” in Australia bigger than Texas. I guess this was a way to remind me that Australia is really really big. Which I think I knew already so I let it go. But then I got to thinking, Texas is pretty big too, and a single farm that size was still a little hard to believe. So I am looking for data. Can anyone prove or disprove the statement?
Read more →“That journey will provide reasons for resisting the claim that a deterministic view of the material universe is incompatible with free will. Much of the apparent power of deterministic arguments comes from their focusing on isolated actions, or even components of actions, that have been excised f...
When my computer turns on it can often take 30 to 120 seconds for my Samsung LCD display to wake up. Facts of the case: - Display is 213T and is something like 3-5 years old - Office can be cold - I am sure the computer is ready within seconds. It’s just waking up. It will play music for example right away. - In every other respect the display is fine - It has always done this Do you know?
As a naturalized citizen who’s lived here for most of his life, Football used to be foreign to me. I grew up knowing soccer and baseball but for the first years Football was a mystery. Now I have a pretty good grasp of football and enjoy watching games on TV. But then I come across something like t...
Read more →From Science Daily: Couch Potatoes Beware: Too Much Time Spent Watching TV Is Harmful to Heart Health. > “Data show that compared to people who spend less than two hours each day on screen-based entertainment like watching TV, using the computer or playing video games, those who devote more than four hours to these activities are more than twice as likely to have a major cardiac event that involves hospitalization, death or both.” (from Couch Potatoes Beware: Too Much Time Spent Watching TV Is Harmful to Heart Health
An insightful article about higher education in the USA: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education. Here are some interesting quotes. It’s a long article and all of it was quite interesting. > “Students at places li...
Read more →Scott Kirsner tweets: > “Invented at MIT, Sifteo cubes (tiny displays that talk to each other) are almost ready: http://bit.ly/eXsCQU / http://bit.ly/ehhZ1Q” Sifteo cubes are similar (except much more expensive and presumably programmable) to Scrabble Flash, that have been around since last year. Interesting.
Just came across this handy-dandy tool to run tests for Ruby and Rails, and produce much nicer and readable traces so you have a prayer to sort out what is going on when stuff fails. [Test::Unit Reporter — A new look and feel for Test::Unit output](https://github.com/TwP/turn?utm_source=feedburner&...
Read more →I just came across an excellent speech given by William Deresiewics (I didn’t know who he was either) to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The title of the speech is Solitude and Leadership. I had a har...
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I was amused by these two, maybe because I myself am unable to achieve any of them: Beard Type Chart The Quest for Every Beard Type
I’ve seen Path, the new "un social" network (limit 50 friends) plugged by pundits and journalists. I tried it and just didn’t get it. Didn’t know what it was for, who it was for, and why it was getting attention. So I am glad finally to come across a commentator who seems to agree with m...
Read more →Check out Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike(from [Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/members/318783044fd511917d3bc9765d8...
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