[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 »
Some months ago, I posted a nice problem: I walked 10 Km to the South, then I turned left, walking straight 10 Km to the East, and then I turned again, going 10 Km to the North, directly arriving to my home. Then I opened a window, and I saw a bear in the outside.… 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
I’m among kyus (pupils) most of the time, but sometimes I’m among dans (masters). Playing with kyus is like chatting, you don’t need to be really concentrated. But if you play with a dan, you shouldn’t loose your concentration, never. Of course, this makes the situation far more interesting. You really fight! When you are… Read More »
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 »
Yesterday I was trying to program a Heapsort algorithm in C, just as a practice to remember how C was (as rough and pure as I remembered). It’s an interesting sorting algorithm, which doesn’t use extra memory, and has a good time complexity, O(n log n). In theory it is as good as the popular… Read More »
A good example of what a client can suggest to change… National flags with clients’ comments (Flash animation) Sadly true! Found via: Information aesthetics
I’m happy to announce that I’ve got the first potato of this season! This morning I was moving my 3 potato plants into a bigger box, and I discovered one potato ready to be eaten. I hope I’ll get more and bigger ones (I’m a greedy farmer!) in the new plant box, which is actually… Read More »