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GHAPACK: A Library for the Generalized Hebbian Algorithm

February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Data, Machine Learning, Software Engineering

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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Agile Scapegoating and People over Process

November 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Agile, Software Engineering

Last week James Shore posted an article The Decline and Fall of Agile that generated quite a bit of discussion. He points out many of atrocities and failures in software development and software project management done under guise of “Agile” or “Scrum” are often not true implementations. You have these teams who say they are doing Scrum, but the only things [...]

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FogBugz: One Hot Ride

March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Software Engineering

So, a few months ago I came across a video by Fog Creek demonstrating the latest version of their project management software FogBugz. Wow. It looked great and appeared to have many of the features I had been searching for across the project management software terrain.
It was not until a couple of weeks ago that [...]

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