May 2012
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February 2012
1 post
Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
November 2011
1 post
Test using MathJax
This is a test for MathJax \(e = mc^2\)
\[x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.\]
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
May 2011
1 post
Manipulation or ignorance? bargraph of eurozone... →
March 2011
1 post
Using the nice #querydsl library for typesafe sql... →
February 2011
2 posts
why it pays to be bilingual →
http://www.nipponconnection.com/ →
This year’s Nippon Connection’s site is up #frankfurt #kino #japan
January 2011
1 post
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Installing the latest R in Ubuntu
At work I have Ubuntu Maverick installed. However, the official packages are a bit outdated. Alternatively, one can add them from an rcran mirror.
In order to do that, you have to add a line to your /etc/apt/sources/list file. The following did it for me
deb http://mirrors.softliste.de/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu maverick/
In order to put the setup to work you further need to add the gpg key for the...
December 2010
2 posts
Likes the new #firefox4, but the startup time is a disaster
August 2010
2 posts
“(…) To simplify it so a computer science guy can get it, Kurzweil has...”
– Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain : Pharyngula
ROILA - Robot Interaction Language →
This is kind of the other way to do it. I’ve spent my whole PhD bitching about the complexity of human languages, and how bringing them to robotic systems will be very hard to achieve, and these guys just pulled a Columbus Egg. Build a language with robots in mind! Chapeau!
July 2010
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Wild cat found mimicking monkey calls; Predatory... →
This is a pretty cool finding! Wild cats using vocal mimicry to manipulate monkeys’ behaviour. The more we know about animal behaviour, the more the perceived gap between human and animal intelligence shrinks.
June 2010
3 posts
“The heads of the players of the Dutch national team are printed on the inside of...”
– world cup fever : aaron perrino’s blog : : the barbarian group
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Concurrent Programming In Show Leopard Video... →
pretty nice screencasts on concurrent programming with the new technologies in Snow Leopard
May 2010
6 posts
Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech... →
Interest post on the limitations of large scale speech recognition systems and the unreal expectations of people on the technology.
“Trotzdem sind viele Deutsche empört darüber, dass sie die Zeche für andere...”
– Im Gespräch: José Manuel Barroso: „Manchmal haben Krisen auch ihr Gutes“ - Ausland - Politik - FAZ.NET
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Preparing for GuruPlug
According to news from the guys at NewIT, I’ll probably be receiving my GuruPlug Server in the next days! Yeah!! I’ve been using a NSLU2 with Debian over the last years for video streaming, file sharing and torrent downloading (only legal ones, of course).
The GuruPlug has a bit more horsepower to offer, which not only means that there will be much less stuttering with videos, but also that more...
“Apple is testing whether a tightly controlled and managed app console platform...”
– Johnny Gruber explains it, again (via mwunsch)
Vote on the hotness of my phd thesis →
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First post or blogging from TextMate
I used to have a Wordpress blog, bug soon got tired of all its features. It’s too bloated for my taste, and wouldn’t blend in with a normal website, which is what I’d like to embed this blog into, as Adrifolio explains. So this is why I’m using tumblr now.
I’m still setting up the environment, syntax highlighting still broken in TextMate, and not getting the same nice preview results as...