links for 2008-04-30

• David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book
  Full text available online
  (tags: DavidMacKay book information theory InformationTheory algorithms online free DataMining computerscience)

links for 2008-04-28

• InfoQ: Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
  Integration between Yahoo! properties is done through REST web services intermediated by sophisticated http caches.
  (tags: http MarkNottingham presentation InfoQ REST cache caching Squid SOA Yahoo! Yahoo)

links for 2008-04-23

• method handles in a nutshell : John Rose @ Sun
  This note gives the essential outlines of a design for method handles, a way to name and interconnect methods without regard to method type or placement, and with full type safety and native execution speed. We will do this in three and a half swift movem
  (tags: toread lang.net JohnRose JVM VM method MethodHandle MethodHandles blog post sun)

links for 2008-04-15

• BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
  "Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests". Good to know...
  (tags: article news BBC science health coffee caffeine food brain interesting neurology Alzheimer dementia cholesterol JonathanGeiger)
• Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
  Team A came up with a very sophisticated algorithm using the Netflix data. Team B used a very simple algorithm, but they added in additional data beyond the Netflix set: information []from the [] IMDB. Guess which team did better?
  (tags: blog post data datamining AnandRajaraman algorithm Stanford BI algorithms competition efficiency recommendations)
• Area Man Makes It Through Day | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  The Onion rocks!
  (tags: funny fake news story TheOnion humor comedy)
• Progress of Scala for NetBeans - with a New Written Lexer and Parser : Caoyuan's Blog
  Caoyuan is rewriting the Scala plugin for NetBeans using the Rats! parser. I just wonder how far along he will get with the type system without plugging into the official compiler; Scala is not a small language...
  (tags: blog post Scala IDE plugin NetBeans CaoyuanDeng Rats!)

links for 2008-04-13

• txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
  Generate REGEXes from sample text.
  (tags: tool web regex regexp generator text util)

links for 2008-04-11

• ruby-on-rails-data-relationships.png (PNG Image, 808x936 pixels)
  Examples in a diagram.
  (tags: rails RoR ruby ActiveRecord diagram graphic mvc model via:fck)
• Signature Survey - A Method for Browsing Unfamiliar Code
  Use very simple scripts to strip source files to their bare essentials in order to look for interesting patterns. By the king of brilliant low-fi ideas himself, Ward Cunningham.
  (tags: article paper WardCunningham signature source code visualization browsing reengineering script OOPSLA 2001 tip technique)

links for 2008-04-10

• Computer Science Unplugged - Home
  Great way to teach CS concepts to children. Have them learn error detection through card tricks, search algorithms by playing battleship, or sorting networks by running around.
  (tags: site teaching education CS computerscience computing kids children programming activity)
• Software Architecture Group (HPI)
  COLA is part of Alan Kay's and Ian Piumarta's STEPS project.This is a tutorial for implementing brainf*ck in COLA
  (tags: MichaelHaupt Cola Pepsi viewpoints STEPS tutorial language parser parsing compiler interpreter implementation VRI IanPiumarta research)