This is a technical description of a programming trick with the blogging engine WordPress (which runs this blog). I know the useless blather you usually read–or, more accurately, ignore–here has nothing to do with programming, but bear with me for one post, because I think people searching on Google might find this trick useful. UPDATE (More…)
[UPDATE 17:16: It's out! Download the Google browser here.] Yes, they’re making a browser too, and it’ll be ready for download later today. Here is the official info page, and a comic book about the technology behind the browser — if you’ve ever done any programming or just appreciate good UI design, prepare to salivate. (More…)
[music map, a classical music concert visualizer] Ever ask yourself, I wonder where major-record-label classical concerts are taking place in the world? Does Deutsche Grammophon have more concerts in central U.S. than EMI does? (They don’t.) What about central Europe? Just check out my CS171 final project: “Where’s the music?” (If you’ve never asked yourself (More…)
[via Context Free Art Gallery and Community of Variation] For a computer science assignment last week I wrote a program with a friend in Scheme that generates sentences using context-free grammar. By specifying a few basic rules for parts of speech and including a simple word list, you can get some remarkably coherent results — (More…)
[via flight404] I love shopping week at the beginning of every semester, because it is a time of beautiful leisure and carefree distraction. Okay, so I skip class for a couple days. But consider this–other, much more ambitious students will go to 20 classes that they don’t end up taking. And guess what? I also (More…)