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30 November, 2006
27 November, 2006
25 November, 2006
Interesting comments?
Pat sent me this entry from the Daily WTF :) Have you ever put dodgy variable names and code into something just to spike your boss? or out of boredom? Hehehe...I have...
22 November, 2006
Got M...?
Xeni posted a video of a fountain in Guatamala. The video isn't that interesting...but the immature part of me is screaming GOT MILK??!!
21 November, 2006
20 November, 2006
17 November, 2006
Pandora Internet Radio
Jasper introduced me to the Pandora Music Genome Project today. A music recommendation project that also does streaming. It asks you for artists that you like then plays you music with similiar properties, then asking you to rate them. This system is perhaps the best implementation of the old MIT music recommendation project Ringo (for those who are too young back them, it was done in the 90s).
For those who are interested in its technicals, these systems are classified as recommendation agents (in the field of Intelligent Agents). They work by calculating the k-nearest neighbours in the hypothesis space. For a more detailed look at the implementations, search for papers by Pattie Maes of the MIT Media labs.
I recommend you guys all try it! It's pretty good in its predictions!
For those who are interested in its technicals, these systems are classified as recommendation agents (in the field of Intelligent Agents). They work by calculating the k-nearest neighbours in the hypothesis space. For a more detailed look at the implementations, search for papers by Pattie Maes of the MIT Media labs.
I recommend you guys all try it! It's pretty good in its predictions!
09 November, 2006
08 November, 2006
07 November, 2006
06 November, 2006
05 November, 2006
The truth about Bob and Eve
Hahaha Alex posted this on the crytography forum. It's so nerdily funny :D For those who're wondering what this is about, many people (especially Scheiner) refer to parties A, B and E when talking about man in the middle attacks and cryptography. That is A wishes to communicate to B, but E is is evaesdropping. For convenience they are refered to as Alice, Bob and Eve. Below is the sordid love triangle.
Sweeeeet sushi!!!!
YouTube ACL test
Let me know if you can see this. Which you shouldn't. If you really want to see this give me your email address.
04 November, 2006
Beat of the drums
Left. Right. Left, right. March!
*Subjected to LCM theorem, period depends on the coprimeness of the beats.
Hmmm to counter this sudden seriousness, here's something from David -
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." -Henry David ThoreauThe above quote is from Ania. No, I haven't gone all mushy and philosophical. It just struck me as a beautiful way of embodying individuality. It is also symbolic of friends and friendships. Some people are 4/4s, others 3/8ths. Some syncopated, others with a strict beat. Sometimes as your friends lives change; whether it would be work or going overseas, so do their beat. It is natural to go out of sync. But you know that once in a while*, your beats will match and those are the moments to live for.
*Subjected to LCM theorem, period depends on the coprimeness of the beats.
Hmmm to counter this sudden seriousness, here's something from David -
03 November, 2006
Why DnD players should not be allowed outside...
...or should be kept in remote forests...
I'm going to cop so much crap for this...but I don't care! Lighting bolt!
I'm going to cop so much crap for this...but I don't care! Lighting bolt!
01 November, 2006
Can you tell what someone is thinking by their eyes?
Someone from my security subject posted this link regarding Asperger's Syndrome, a condition where the person cannot identify the feelings shown by another person. Man I scored 20, which is below the threshold of 21 (for asperger's) and 26 (for normal people).
Let me know what you guys get :)
Let me know what you guys get :)
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