People are often asking me how and why my department shifted from an ASP.NET environment to Django. I’ve finally gotten around to writing about the process leading up to our decision. I hope people out there find it useful in their own development groups and discussions.
Almost two years ago I was in a rather unlikely [...]
I recently joined a new open source project called GHAPACK. The project currently provides the functionality and the means to use the Generalized Hebbian Algorithm. I came across this project after banging my head against some of the practical limitations of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). GHA is a Hebbian-based neural network-like algorithm that approximates SVD’s [...]
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I had a chance to attend an Edward Tufte class this past week and it truly was a pleasure. He has published a number of beautiful books on presentation and the visualization of data. So, it was quite a treat to sit in on a presentation by someone that teaches about giving presentations for a [...]
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