Neural Nets and the Passage of Time
Thirty years ago, Diane and I were engaged in a madcap dash across the country, a 25-hour road-trip from our
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Computers, software, programming, and other bits
New Thing for Me: RepRap
I’ve got a Folger Tech FT-5 3D printer kit that I’m putting together. I’ve just gotten the mechanical parts of
Read moreThe End of Win32
An article on ZDNet discusses impending changes in Microsoft Windows products. In order for the Windows brand and Microsoft’s software
Read moreNet Neutrality for Opponents
There seems to be a lot of confusion about net neutrality. Of course, there’s also a lot of corporate propaganda
Read moreNet Neutrality and Nincompoops
Reason’s Nick Gillespie gave a fawning interview to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the topic of net neutrality. Along the
Read moreProgramming is Presbyterian
There’s a mind-expanding post at Coding Horror from 2006. Hey, can’t a guy have a nine-year backlog? The title: “Separating
Read moreExploiting Modern Laptop Hardware
I’ve been in the pleasant position of developing strategy of how best to set up new hardware. Well, new to
Read moreSome Programming Notes
Some of the stuff I’ve run across in the last few months that I consider cool: Emscripten is a LLVM-based
Read moreNet Neutrality and Irony Meter Implosion
In looking up commentary on net neutrality, I found Kool-Aid chugger Chris Harris. (I was actually looking for “Logan Albright”,
Read moreOpen Message to Congress on Net Neutrality
I get email. One of the email messages I got yesterday was from Battle for the Net, a group advocating
Read moreNet Neutrality and the Contrarian Backlash
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama gave a speech laying out strong support for “net neutrality”. Obama called on the
Read morePython: Pandas 0.15.0 is available
Last week, Wes McKinney gave a presentation on new features in a forthcoming release of Pandas, version 0.15.0. The big
Read moreNew York: Strata Conference, Day 1
I’m attending the O’Reilly Strata Conference (the well-respected techical books publisher, not the blowhard TV personality). This is the east
Read moreToyota, WSJ, and Computers: An Update
Back in 2010, I wrote about the sudden unintended acceleration problem (SUAP in the earlier article here, UA in the
Read moreNutonian’s Eureqa and Concerns of Overfitting
I’ve been using Nutonian’s Eureqa symbolic regression product extensively since early 2013. Back in late 2013, there was an article
Read moreEvolutionary Computation, Evolvability, and Python
Funnily enough, an antievolutionist brought a recent article on evolvability to my attention. The paper, “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability
Read moreRaspberry Pi: An Update on Sound
Life has been a bit demanding lately, so it has been a while since I last worked on the Raspberry
Read moreA New Year
The Mayan apocalypse failed to appear, so I had a nice New Year’s day here in Florida. The temperature got
Read morePopulation Modeling in Python
One of the courses I enjoyed most in my Ph.D. program was taught by Prof. Kirk Winemiller on population dynamics.
Read morePairing Raspberry Pi with Teensy++
I am looking forward to getting a Teensy++ 2.0 microcontroller board. Teensy is a low-cost, small microcontroller based on Atmel
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