Somebody sent me a link to an article about Computer Go, appeared in the “IEEE Spectrum” magazine. It’s quite unbelievable that the author (who was involved in the Deep Blue development) wrote this overall article about the subject, mostly focusing the solution in brute-force… “Brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon… Read More »
The title should’ve been something like “why do people dislike to speak about their salaries?“, but Jakob Nielsen (a usability leader, but sometimes too radical) suggested to use numbers in the titles. The people avoid showing their pays to others because they are scared of being compared. It’s a quite silly idea, to use the… Read More »
I’ve seen in the last few weeks some examples on using the word positions within the sentences… like my “your blog written by monkeys“. A way to experiment is just looking for a chuck of a sentence, a “meaning” block, that puts in relation two concepts. For example encountering “is the new”, you can create… Read More »
Imagine a big restaurant, with a lot of cooks. There are some bosses managing all the work: assigning the dishes to the individual cooks. So far, this seems quite correct. But imagine the bosses decide to start a individual plate with 3 cooks, who start to heat the frying pan, and then the bosses decide… Read More »
Do you want to try my new tiny script? Just write here your blog’s url, click the button and watch the surprise. Have fun! And now, let me explain it. Some weeks ago I was discussing with another engineer about NLP, and the importance of having some language knowledge to effectively process a text. He… Read More »
[Disclaimer: This is not a normal post in my usual style. It’s just a technical reference text. I’ve spent the whole week trying to figure out how configure my laptop and an external screen. Eventually, I got it running! So I’d like to share my config here and in some ubuntu forums] I installed Ubuntu… Read More »
Recently I was asked about different issues regarding NLP, due to my PhD studies in that field, and I’ve started reading again about this… Natural Language Processing is a part of the Artificial Intelligence which studies how a computer could understand natural human languages, like English. There are a lot of subjects in NLP, but… Read More »
Doing some Sunday morning random surf on the net, I found somebody trying to take pictures of streets named after mathematicians in Paris. I started wondering how many streets could I find here in Barcelona with the same subject… No Gauss, Laplace, Euler or Pointcaré… just Archimedes, Pythagoras and some more greek friends. Obviously, with… Read More »
The extended or derived class has all variables and functions of the base class (this is called ‘inheritance’ despite the fact that nobody died) From the PHP official documentation
The thing to speak about this week in Spain is the end of the football league. But I don’t follow it!! Let’s restart: the thing to speak about this week in Spain, regarding the “web world”, is the new website of the Spanish Congress, www.congreso.es. This new version was worth a bit less than 200… Read More »