Computers, Babies n' Other Rants: February 2005

Word and Mind

I wish that word and mind could be
laid out plain identically

Yet sometimes word betrays the mind
not plain nor clear the words unwind

Perhaps someday with word
mind would not play

Bypass those means
At words dismay

Buy me something from amazon - please :)

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) by Richard S. Sutton

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation) by Pedro Larranaga

Accuracy Improvements in Linguistic Fuzzy Modeling (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, V. 129) by J. Casillas

Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 137) by Vincenzo Loia

Advances in Bayesian Networks (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, V. 146) by Jose A. Gamez

Ant Colony Optimization (Bradford Books) by Marco Dorigo

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) by Eric Bonabeau

Swarm Intelligence by Russell C. Eberhart

Data Mining : Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions by Hillol Kargupta

An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Sets (Advances in Soft Computing) by James J. Buckley

Advanced Fuzzy Systems Design and Applications by Yaochu Jin

Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments (Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation) by Jurgen Branke

Designing Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments by Ronald W. Morrison

THE GREY ALBUM - Jay Z meets the Beatles

THE GREY ALBUM STORY SO FAR

DJ Danger Mouse remixed the vocals from Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' White Album and called his creation The Grey Album. He sent about 3,000 promo copies out, and was soon served with a cease-and-desist notice from EMI, who owns the rights to the White Album master. Danger Mouse complied with EMI's order, but Stay Free! (sponsors of the Illegal Art Exhibit) and other fans and activists continued distributing the record over the Internet. EMI sent legal threats to many of us as well but has since backed down, at least for the time being.

http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html

You need BitTorrent to get it - but it is worth getting :)

I heard it 1st on my fav hip-hop radio station online:

SmoothBeats.com

Enjoy!
-CD

Resharper - my goodness -get it !

If you program C# in Visual Studio - and you do not use Resharper - you are wasting too much time. I am not the testmimonial type - BUT...

I started using this tool - then started many members of my dev staff using it with the expectation that what is good for me may only be good for a few of them. EVERY developer is hooked on Resharper like crack.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

I can say that there are things that you would waste HOURS on the resharper does for you. Just go download a trial and TRY to use it. There is NO WAY you will try it and not realize that it will save you time.

-CD