Tag Archives: programming

Flickr Uploadr is a pain, but Flickraw saved the day

By Phi | Published: 30 Jan 10
Flickr’s Uploadr is fine for small uploads, but tends to die consistently and unpleasantly when I have several hundred photos to upload, like those from Thursday’s opening of “The boys next door”, this year’s Morris Area High School one-act. It almost always takes me several tries to get a large pool of photos uploaded, [...]
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I love our students (alumni edition)

By Phi | Published: 2 Dec 09
Two cool tweets from two cool alumni :-).
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Nothing like a little shameless self-promotion

By Phi | Published: 10 Mar 08
I’ve been sitting on this for a while I waited for EuroGP to get their web site updated; they have, freeing me up to do a little unabashed chest-thumping, leavened with some praise for UMM’s excellent students. A few weeks from now the Eleventh European conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) will happen in Naples [...]
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JOCP! At revision 400!

By Phi | Published: 28 Feb 08
It’s pretty cool when you update your repository and see At revision 400 We just hit that on the genetic programming book that Riccardo and Bill and I are working on; we’re currently averaging close to 10 commits a day here in the final stages. We hope to wrap it up in the next 1.5 weeks [...]
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Decentralized, distributed systems, evolutionary computation, and prisoner’s dilemma

By Phi | Published: 8 Feb 08
Chris posted some cool questions on my earlier post about decentralized behavior in social insects: so what kinds of things do computer scientists do w/this idea? is sort of what evolutionary computing is about? i picked up the evolution of cooperation recently (tit for tat wins prisoner’s dilemma) you must be familiar w/this, yes?” There’s really three [...]
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N-grams and the evolution of programs

By Phi | Published: 2 Feb 08
Which of the following was written by (a) me, (b) William Shakespeare, and (c) Charles Darwin? “I would have sent to Rome that’s worthy death?” “The naturalist looking at species as he might succeed from a fork low down in the separation of the species of any species in a more or less from their sap this [...]
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Celebrate your inner nerd!

By Phi | Published: 15 Jan 08
Registration for both the Algorithm and Marathon competitions in this year’s TopCoder Open close in the last week of January, so start sharpening your … uh … programming … thingies … I was participating in TopCoder events a fair bit when we first got to Colchester. I stopped, though, once the research really got up [...]
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A wonderfully different way to thing about computing

By Phi | Published: 19 Nov 07
One of my constant struggles as an educator in computer science has been helping students see a bigger picture, look past the mundanities of yesterday’s “help wanted” page, and see what the world could be rather than what it has been. One way this has often played out has been in debates over programming languages and [...]
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