Author Archives: José María Ruiz

Links of 2011-11-04

Posted on 2011-12-04 by José María Ruiz

Head of Gold, Feet of Clay: The Online Learning Paradox Spare Me From “Product Guys” Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb. Ten years later, insiders press a different view of Enron

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Greg Wilson – What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True

Posted on 2011-12-03 by José María Ruiz

Greg Wilson – What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True from CUSEC on Vimeo. I admire Greg Wilson, not only for his technical achievements, but for his crusade for improve the state of the … Continue reading →

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Links of the day

Posted on 2011-12-03 by José María Ruiz

Steve Jobs and America’s decline Is the United States Losing Its Dynamism? An Interview with John C. Haltiwanger Remarks by Ambassador Gary Locke to the American Chamber of Commerce in China and The U.S.-China Business Council The Impact of Globalization … Continue reading →

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How to remove the "welcome" page in emacs

Posted on 2011-12-03 by José María Ruiz

As simple as adding to your .emacs : (setq inhibit-startup-message t) Read on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744672/unable-to-hide-welcome-screen-in-emacs

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All watched over by machines of loving grace

Posted on 2011-12-01 by José María Ruiz

I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest … Continue reading →

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Of space shuttles and software

Posted on 2011-11-03 by José María Ruiz

Today I found this article in News Ycombinator: http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20111030/ I subscribe everything said in it as it’s inline with my experience in software. Engineers are most of the times too ambitious in their asumptions and Space Races has been a … Continue reading →

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«We Really Don't Know How To Compute!»

Posted on 2011-11-03 by José María Ruiz

Really interesting and eye opener talk by one of the greatest computers scientist of all times (in my modest p.o.v), Gerald Jay Sussman: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute If I’m still a developer and still find programming an intellectual experiences is thanks to him. … Continue reading →

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IPython, ubuntu, pip and readline

Posted on 2011-11-01 by José María Ruiz

So, you installed PIP in your Ubuntu system and then decided to install IPython using PIP (for example inside a virtualenv), just to discover that after installing ipython does not support autocomplete? The solution is to install the package libreadline-dev … Continue reading →

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Book: Mining of Massive Datasets

Posted on 2011-10-21 by José María Ruiz

I’ve downloaded the book «Mining of Massive Datasets», a free book on data mining and machine learning. You can download the book too in: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html   I’m really enjoying studying this book because it will not try to show you … Continue reading →

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New books: Artificial Intelligence (a modern approach) and Reamde

Posted on 2011-10-20 by José María Ruiz

Well, now I’ve my book for Stanford’s AI Class and it’s heavy as hell. As a bonus I’ve bought the new book by Neal Stephenson “Reamde”. Someone has to tell Mr. Stephenson that it’s possible to write a novel in … Continue reading →

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