John Cook03/24/12
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Occam’s razor says that if two models fit equally well, the simpler model is likely to be a better description of reality. Why should that be?
Ted Neward03/21/12
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Ted Neward believes young programmers need to be comfortable asking questions. We are all young programmers in one thing or another. Our best defense is to learn to ask questions.
Tim Murphy03/15/12
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Tim Murphy discusses the need for educating Computer Scientists to understand the perspective of developers, and vice versa, after reading a tweet comparing the relationship to that of Structural Engineers and Stone Masons...
Baptiste Wicht01/31/12
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Some weeks ago, I finished Compilers : Principles, Techniques & Tools, by Afred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman. This book is also called the Dragon Book due to the cover.
Pablo Pareja Tobes01/13/12
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Learn about the newest release of Bio4j, which now includes AWS instances from any region, a basic REST server, and support for Cypher and Gremlin.Hi !
I’m happy to announce that the version 0.7 of Bio4j has been
released. Check out the wide set of new...
Giuseppe Vettigli01/09/12
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A fixed point for a function is a point at which the value of the
function does not change when the function is applied. More formally, x is a fixed point for a given function f if
Pablo Pareja Tobes12/31/11
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Hi all !
Today I managed to find some time to check out the Graph-algo component from Neo4j and after playing with it plus Bio4j a bit, I have to say it seems pretty cool.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, here you have the description you...
Mitch Pronschinske12/17/11
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In the session we describe relevance improvements we have implemented
in our Lucene-based search system for English and Chinese contents and
the tests we...
