Coin Tossing Over the Internet

3:34 p.m. Friday, November 6th 2009.

Ever like to settle decisions with a coin toss? Well, here's a very simple way to "flip a coin" with a friend over the Internet . …

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Function Evolution

11:16 p.m. Wednesday, September 30th 2009.

Is it possible to automatically generate images out of the functions in Image Functions? The answer is yes! It is possible with genetic programming. Let's explore this. …

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Context-Sensitive Links: Just another reason the news media is dying

5:54 p.m. Monday, September 14th 2009.

There is an InformationWeek Article today about a new feature of Microsoft's Bing Search Engine. I want to point out a few absurdities about this article. …

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Time-lapse of the Alien

5:15 p.m. Saturday, August 15th 2009.

Reddit user grigri created a beautiful alien using nothing but math and Lambda functions. Naturally it took a few tries to do this - from which I compiled a time-lapse video: …

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Monospace

1:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 11th 2009.

Software engineers normally find monospace fonts (e.g. Courier) to be superior to other fonts for development. We do this for a number of reasons, but I'll give a few: …

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