I had to crunch some data today, and decided to experiment a bit. It mostly involved lots and lots of Levenshtein ratios. On my laptop it took over 25 minutes to complete a single run (45k rows, several thousand calculations per row) – a bummer when you want to quickly iterate the rules, cutoffs, penalties, [...]
A couple weeks ago my coworker mentioned PiCloud. It claims to be “Cloud Computing. Simplified.” for python programming. Indeed, their trivial examples are too good to be true, basically. I pointed out how the way it was packaging up code to send over the wire was a lot like Pyro‘s Mobile Code feature. We actually [...]
These are some deliciously tasty scones that are incredibly easy to make. The recipe is from a former cowoker, Ryan. They just take a few minutes and aren’t messy or anything. We often substitute out up to half the flour with whole wheat. Presumably healthier and gives a nice flavor. It can fairly easily scale [...]
Many years ago (2004) I was at Montgomery Blair HS, and was involved in the student TV/Radio station BNC. One of the project we did was this radio show, Fishboy. I was only minimally involved helping with some technical parts, but the guys who were involved did an awesome job. After Ben saw this article [...]