Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17aug2006
libperceptronnetwork is lightweight neural network library The type of neural networks are known as multilayer feedforward perceptron networks. Although this type of neural network is mathematically limited in its capabilities, it provides a solid foundation a large number of common categorization and recognition tasks can be solved with.
The CImg Library is an open source C++ toolkit for image processing.
Bruce Schneier Facts, Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier. E.g., “Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.” Whee.
G2 8.2, reviewed by Cameron Laird. Software you probably never have heard of, but worth knowing about.
Actual lessons from Kiko, you can now buy your favourite AJAX web calendar on eBay.
Ich hab den Text vergessen,
ich bin mein Fragezeichen.
Doch ich komm morgen wieder,
gib mir deinen Segen.
— Ton Steine Scherben, Jenseits von Eden
On the implausibility of the explosives plot, by Perry E. Metzger. Must-read. “At some point, we’re going to have to accept that there is a difference between real security and Potemkin security, and a difference between realistic threats and uninteresting threats.”
Smerl: Simple Metaprogramming for Erlang, by Yariv Sadan.
Water without hydrogen would warrant warnings, signs at park air phony hazard. Very funny.
M.I.T. “CADR LispMachine” font, great!
American Muslims face discrimination, by Hung Fu. “22% [of the Americans] say they would not like to have a Muslim as a neighbor.”
Why Expensive Bugs Are Cheap to Fix, by Curtis Poe. Don’t forget your reputation.
Funny Spam, at the Adjunct.
Foreign bodies in the rectum, from Bailey & Love’s Short Practice Of Surgery. Weird, but an awesome story.
And this is my one phone call
And baby I m calling you
You tell me, ‘stay strong boy’
I say, well, I’ll do the best I do
— Dan Bern, Jail
CouchDb REST API, “That’s right, REST on the Couch. Doesn’t that feel nice? Let me fetch you a lemonade and some slippers.” Who can compare that to Atom?
Interviewing the team behind RubyConf*MI, Pat Eyler interviews Brandon Keepers, Mark Van Holstyn, Zach Dennis, and Craig Demyanovich.
David Carlisle’s XQuery conversion of the Sudoku stylesheet, yum. Reasonably easy and readable, even.
Freezone, the holiday destination of the future.
Hyper-backgammon is a recent backgammon variant that has become popular as a quick diversion from the regular game.