Today was a tiring day — I had to talk to half of the students that we caught for plagiarism in the programming intro class, and this is something I’m really bad at. At least in the middle of the lecture one student (a different one) asked me a question about why pointers are so […]
In the past two weeks, I have been trying to chip at the huge pile of links I have in my Pocket and Twitter accounts. Here are some cool links I cleared up this Sunday: NN-SVG: This is a javascript program to create SVG visualization for traditional neural networks, such as FCNs and ConvNets. This […]
Today I saw this amazing story on twitter about a report that google had flagged a file in google drive as “containing copyright infrigement”. The catch? The file only contained a single “1” in it. Abuses of automatic copyright detection are not rare (specially on youtube), but this reached new heights of stupidity. Someone in […]
Recently I’ve read an essay which left a strong impression on me, titled “Make Tiny Weird Software, Please! (all about desktop pets, old computer eras, and virtual toys)”. As the title suggests, the essay is a look back at “desktop pet” software. Desktop pets are programs that create small creatures in the computer desktop. These […]
Today I spent a lot of time playing with Orb Farm, a program that simulates the ecosystem of an aquarium, with plants, algae, plankton, bacteria and fish. It is quite fun, and can generate some very beautiful scenes, with little input necessary from the user. The user places all the aquarium components (sand, algae, fish, […]