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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Yes, I’ve enrolled in the Machine Learning Course of Stanford University. The thing is that I’ve studied Artificial Intelligence before and the AI class is like a refresher for things I’ve learnt before. But I’ve never took classes on Machine … Continue reading →

So, today I needed to access one of my emails accounts from my Android smartphone. I though it will be easy to configure it and tried many times but never worked. I was getting crazy until I found that: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1016 … Continue reading →

Two new books arrived from Bookdepository. Data Analysis Calculus made easy My story with “Calculus made easy” is a bit special. I was computing teacher for old people in a Spanish foundation years ago. One of my students was a … Continue reading →

Yes! One of my dreams came true, I’ve enrolled in Stanford online AI class. I studied with Russell & Norvig Artificial Intelligence textbook while in college and now I’ve the opportunity to study AI again thanks to Stanford University. Peter … Continue reading →