What was the best video/session at Mix 2010?
The videos have been put up for most of the sessions now, I can't watch all of them - so any favourites? any 'must-see's?
I write programs to play board game variants sometimes. The basic strategy is standard alpha-beta pruning or similar searches, sometimes augmented by the usual approaches to endgames or openings. I've mostly played around with chess variants, so when it comes time to pick my evaluation function, I use a basic chess evaluation function.
However,…
I would describe myself as a career coder - i.e. a developer at work but never really coded for fun.
Early in my career I've hit the management track though. I really like my current job and can't see me going back to coding anytime soon so:
Whats the best way to develop my coding skills and learn new languages in my spare time?
Hi all,
I like to learn computer science and programming, but i don't know where and how to start. For the past two months, i have been researching on types of programming, i found my interest in desktop programming, and also found this subjects (discrete maths, logic, algorithms, data structures, artificial intelligence, simulation) said to be a…
For about a year I have been thinking about writing a program that writes programs. This would primarily be a playful exercise that might teach me some new concepts. My inspiration came from negentropy and the ability for order to emerge from chaos and new chaos to arise out of order in infinite succession.
To be more specific, the program…
A long time ago (Netscape 4-era), I wrote Javascript-based games: Pong, Minesweeper, and John Conway's Life among them. I'm getting back into it, and want to get my hands even dirtier.
I have a few games in mind:
Axis & Allies clone, with rugged maps and complex rules.
Tetris clone, possibly with real-time player-vs-player or…
Hello
I am wondering what algorithm would be clever to use for a tag driven e-commerce enviroment:
Each item has several tags. IE:
Item name: "Metallica - Black Album CD", Tags: "metallica", "black-album", "rock", "music"
Each user has several tags and friends(other users) bound to
them. IE:
Username: "testguy", Interests:…
How do you classify a row of seperate cells in matlab?
Atm I can classify single coloums like so:
training = [1;0;-1;-2;4;0;1]; % this is the sample data.
target_class = ['posi';'zero';'negi';'negi';'posi';'zero';'posi'];
% target_class are the different target classes for the training data; here 'positive' and 'negetive'…
I have a basic understanding of hexadecimal and binary representations, which I'd like to improve. Can anyone recommend books that can help me along? Thanks.
After reading How to not sort by average rating by Evan Miller I was really inspired to learn some more math. But after thinking about it for a while I didn't find a way I can use beyond-trivial math in my pet projects..
Or probably it is a moment like "You are not aware that you are not aware" and I should learn more math…
Thus far used sql server stored procedures for all my web applications... Now thought of moving to an ORM... I would like to ask SO users about LINQ to SQL
Is Linq to sql worth a try as a beginner to an ORM?
or should i look for someothers... Any suggestion...
I'm looking for a book (or other media) which provides an overview of statistics that is both comprehensive (covering all the basic/intermediate concepts) and comprehensible (which, for me, means not being weighed down with unnecessary and especially un-introduced mathematical symbology).
Can anyone offer suggestions?
Hi , I am doing a question on Candidate Elimination Algorithm.
I am a little confused with the general boundary G.
Here is an example, I got G and S to the fourth case, but I am not sure with the last case.
Sunny,Warm,Normal,Strong,Warm,Same,EnjoySport=yes
Sunny,Warm,High,Strong,Warm,Same,EnjoySport=yes…
I'm 21 and am pretty efficient in html/css, python, and javascript. I also know my way around lisp languages and enjoy programing in them. My problem is that I'm extremely self-taught and not quite confident that I could land a job programing, but I really need a job soon as I've just become a father.
I…
I am trying to use IDF scores to find interesting phrases in my pretty huge corpus of documents.
I basically need something like Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases, i.e. phrases that distinguish a document from all the others
The problem that I am running into is that some (3,4)-grams in my data…
No doubt there is a lot to read on blogs, in books, and on Stack Overflow, but can we identify some guidelines for CS students to use while studying?
For me these are:
Finish your course books early and read 4-5 times more material relative to your course work.
Programming is the one of the fastest…
I understand the definition of a Linked List, but how can it be represented and related to a common concept or item?
For example, inheritance in OOP can be related to automobiles. All (most) automobiles in real life are the essentially same thing; an automobile has an Engine, you can start() it,…
I am a junior Java SE developer, planning to become a Java Standard Edition professional. Which technologies/frameworks will be the smartest thing for me to learn? I will invest a lot of time and energy on the technologies that I eventually choose and it will be the basis for my carreer. I need to…
Always there are few set of items needs to be memorized in short span of time. Here are my following cases.
1) My Job requires some set of items needs to be memorized.
2) I am a developer who has to learn 150+ tags within next 3 days.
3) Fix developer/support has to remember minimum of 125+ tags…
Hello,
I have a set of Books objects, classs Book is defined as following :
Class Book{
String title;
ArrayList<tags> taglist;
}
Where title is the title of the book, example : Javascript for dummies.
and taglist is a list of tags for our example : Javascript, jquery, "web dev", ..
…
I am planning to attend my first developer conference (Microsoft TechDays 2008 in Toronto). I have been looking around for suggestions so that I can prepare and make the most out of my first developer conference. Many articles make suggestions about asking questions, getting involved, being…
I have often enjoyed the use of analogies in understanding a software scenario or problem.
For example, to understand the concept of public key encryption, the 'locked mailbox' analogy or similar is often used as an aid:
An analogy for public-key encryption
is that of a locked mailbox…
Hello,
I have a masterpage and content page. And I'm trying to run a script that needs to be executed on the page loading.
As I am using a master page do not have access to the field
My doubt is how to run the script within the content page? And where the script has to be? the head of the…
I want to detect one kind of object such as person in the picture,
who can tell me how to training a kind of people classifier for use,so we can use the classifier to detect people in any picture.
Hey guys
How to make software work like torrent work?
Bcz always when i see that torrent software then i am really amazed by their sizes and what they do in that sizes?
How they managed the download by parts and then all together as soon as u downloaded full part?
and as soon as you had…