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Response to Steve Jobs’ Open Letter to
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-publishes-some-thoughts-on-flash-many-many-thou/ I mostly agree with most of the technical issues he raises and I think the lesson here is that it does, in fact, pay to use open standards. However, there are some things he says that I take issue … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Tagged adobe, android, flash, google, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, objective-c
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Newscientist: Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.500-horizontal-and-vertical-the-evolution-of-evolution.html?full=true&print=true Lately, I’m increasingly thinking, especially after reading this article, that evolutionary computing would benefit greatly from using a more bacterial type of evolution, where genes are shared between often unrelated organisms, rather than brute inheritance. Another way of looking … Continue reading
Exercise 3-6: Sorting Lists & 3-7 Using Library Modules
It looks like there’s one other guy on the internet who’s posting his answers for the exercises in this book. So, I’ll be linking to his so you (and I) can compare our answers. He knows what he’s doing. In … Continue reading
Exercise 3-5: Manipulating Lists
Next installment in my “Thomas does your homework” series…
Exercise 3-4 Database Handling Using Lists
Here’s my clumsy attempt at the database handling exercise. Man, I must be a nerd, but I actually like these exercises.. I’m also enjoying my biology class. Is there something wrong with me?
Erlang Exercises – Chapter 3
I learn by doing much more than by reading or listening, so as I go through O’Reilly’s Erlang Programming, I take the exercises at the end seriously. Generally, when I learn a new programming language, while I read, I’ll make … Continue reading
Update (on Earlier Post on Evolutionary Programming)
Apparently, without realizing it, I implemented a technique known as grammatical evolution, and the thing I’ve been aiming to do is called a genetic programming problem solver. More on this later, but here is the earlier post.
Ah, now Mac OS X is finally behaving…
I mentioned in a post earlier about my frustrations w/ the mac keyboard. I finally got around to being frustrated enough to google and (pretty simply) solve the issues I had. Basically, as a programmer the craaaazy way home and … Continue reading
I Created Life!
Here is a ruby script I quickly whipped up to teach myself genetic programming/evolutionary programming, and also to demonstrate basic principles of biology (please see below to see how it works.. if you’re on my front page, click to read … Continue reading
Posted in evolutionary programming, nature
Tagged avida, evolutionary programming, genetics
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Bandwidth Detection AS3
ex animo » Blog Archive » Automatic Bandwidth Detection for SMIL + FLVPlayback + Progressive Downloads I was frustrated trying to get my flash player to do bandwidth detection, then stumbled on this site.. Apparently, there’s a bug in FLVplayback? … Continue reading
Set up Verizon USB720 BroadbandAccess card on OpenSuse 11
Just wanted to share the settings I used to get it working (because discussion boards are full of things that don’t work, and most people are jerks who never share that they got something working). Using KNetworkManager (haven’t gotten it … Continue reading
Install Flash Plugin in Linux x86_64
Download the .tar.gz plugin (even if you’re using an .rpm-based distribution), untar and: nspluginwrapper -i libflashplayer.so You don’t have to copy the file first or anything. If that command doesn’t work, install nspluginwrapper, but any self-respecting x86_64 distro will install … Continue reading
T-Mobile Web (formerly T-Zones) settings for Samsung/Softbank 707scii
I got me a Softbank 707scii. Some sellers on eBay actually offer gprs unlock. This means, I can surf the internet on my Japanese cell phone! So, anyone who’s trying to figure out the right settings, here they are: Access … Continue reading
One more thing about Mac OS X keyboard suckiness
…they hijack the F keys. I like having a volume key, etc., but why can’t that be additional keys? F5 is refresh! kuh Earlier Post: Mac OS X vs. My Keyboard
How to respond to events in a custom WindowSWF panel (Actionscript 3)
One power you have in making custom panels for Flash (or whatever recent Adobe programs that support flash-based panels) that is almost never realized is the ability to respond to events. Does anything like this sound familiar to you: you … Continue reading