Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Couple of days ago, Ken gave me a vintage April 1998 edition of Dr. Dobbs Journal. Interestingly enough, DDJ's May 2005 issue was also about algorithms; reminds me of Heuristics are bug ridden by definition if they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms.-Anonymous
Rob Howard told us in Day of Whidbey conference at San Diego .NET users group, that Microsoft is now his second favorite company. As he puts it, Microsoft was his first favorite company till he established his own, telligent Systems. As always, startups bring innovation and brilliant products in the market; community server is one of them. Well…
Yesterday I cycled more than 10 miles, to three cities (Temple City, Arcadia, Pasadena). Following is the map. Didn’t ride freeways (you technically can’t)
Measuring time has always been an important trait of human civilization evolved constantly; from Mayan pyramids to Gregorian calendar, Middle-earth calendar or Stardates, it all has been quest of time keeping. Calendars can be divided into three major categories; Solar, Lunar and Fiscal. A detailed list of calendars can be found here. Gregorian Calendar…
Interesting piece of humor in MCP Magazine http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=861
I'm sitting here watching Garden State and trying to figure out Frank Buß's Mars Rescue challenge; kinda bummed especially after Prashant solved Einstein Riddle way faster than I did. It was like 15-20 minutes! Only if they give ignoble prizes for this! Bravo Prashant, you're the man. The Mars rescue challenge has been in news: Yahoo News:…
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Excuse my ignorance but before today when Prashant told us about Exceptions Dialog Box CLR exceptions debug option, I never have used it for breaking on exceptions; and now that I know about it, it makes me wonder why not? Rob & Jorge think its because we write such good quality code that it seldom needs debugging, I…
Rusty Ryan: Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. I can't talk about it, and I can't talk about why.
“To study, and when the occasion arises to put what one has learned into practice—is that not deeply satisfying?” Confucius, Analects 1.1.1 Google Suggest would be a classical example of it. Slashdot | Google Suggest Labs :: Google Suggest