a quick little friday night project…Conway’s Game of Life, written in ruby. github repo
a quick little friday night project…Conway’s Game of Life, written in ruby. github repo [http://github.com/eignerchris/game_of_life]…
inspiration from ira glass
inspiring words from ira glass on working through the hard bits to master a skill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE…
great commencement speech about 'big picture'
really enjoyed this stanford school of medicine commencement speech. it’s all about systems, folks: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.html…
fun ruby project - angel - file integrity checker
fun ruby project - angel - file integrity checker [http://github.com/eignerchris/angel] needed a small, friday-night project. angel is a VERY simple ruby file integrity checker.…
Genetic Programming 101 (Ruby)
I took a machine learning course this quarter and had the chance to do some genetic programming. Given Ruby’s readability, it struck me as a bit odd that there weren’t more genetic programming tutorials written using it. I had a blast playing with the programs, so I set…
The fundamental dilemma that every human faces is that the truth is both uncomfortable and inconvenient. It allows only two courses of...
The fundamental dilemma that every human faces is that the truth is both uncomfortable and inconvenient. It allows only two courses of action: the false comfort of denial, or the excruciating mental detoxification of ridding yourself of your own narcissism and ignorance.…
Virginity is not a "gift". To suggest it is, as Tony Abbott has, is absurdly childish. It's also ridiculously romantic. None of which would...
> Virginity is not a ”gift”. To suggest it is, as Tony Abbott has, is absurdly childish. It’s also ridiculously romantic. None of which would matter if the discussion stopped there. But it doesn’t. Instead, the Leader of the Opposition has raised the very ugly spectre of female virtue…
STUFF IS EVERYWHERE
i forget how much i hate having *stuff*. with a paper due and finals approaching, little time has been spent keeping things orderly… dear stuff, i don’t want you anymore. please leave at your earliest convenience. ty.…