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Category Archives: coding
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
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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.
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
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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
Create iCalendar Files in PHP
I whipped up a php class today to generate iCalendar files. I noticed halfway through making it that there are others (more like other, just iCalcreator). Mine focuses on just being really simple and so far, its output parses in … Continue reading
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MusiTone
There’s this cool font you can use to pretty much make your own sheet music. It is a chore making music this way.. hmmm.. if only some robot could type the notes for you *grin* Anyway, on an entirely unrelated … Continue reading
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fucking malloc()!
I am RETARDED! I spent most of today trying to get this app using OpenAL to work with a manually generated buffer (ie, not using a wave-loading function). I kept on trying to figure out why the damn program wouldn’t … Continue reading
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stupid bug
there’s a bug in magpie, which this site uses to print out content from blogger. at least it’s a bug as far as I’m concerned. basically, it seems to convert the html entities into the actual characters (unless the actual … Continue reading
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Serving pages to cell phones
If you are bored on the train, never fear! Ugly, slow-loading websites on your cell-phone to the rescue! Seriously, kids. You can make a portable version of your website so easily. Basically, you make the pages (index.wml) and throw them … Continue reading
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