Today at 8:12 ThingsILearned.com hit a milestone, 200 page views! Okay, that’s not too exciting, especially since we’re still just a blog. But I thought it’d be good to get in some practice for when we’ve got the site launched and get to 2 million or 200,000 users or something like that. No budget for [...]
Archive for May, 2007
29 May
CImgLib – A Simple Image Class for PNG Files.
I wrote a bit about it before but while working on the Seperation of Reflections project I needed a simple C++ image library. I experimented with several over a few hours, most had just way too much stuff for me to quickly dive into so I ended up writing my own small image API. All [...]
25 May
Day 1 – Introduction
Yesterday 3 guys moved with me into my parents basement. I have amazingly supportive parents, though they often wonder whether they adopted me. Most of us can’t move to California for a week or two but we want to get started so we chose to do that here. We’re all set up on a collection [...]
24 May
Diversity! Differences! Mind!! Man this World in unequal!!
Sometimes also called savants, there are a few extraordinary people around us who have amazing ability to remember things. Daniel is one such extraordinarily gifted man born out of East London who suffered seizures at the age of four, after which life was never the same for him or the people around him. With the [...]
24 May
First Grade and Robots
Yesterday was my last day at IBM, and today I went back to first grade. To most people that might sound backwards. Personally I don’t care what it sounds like, I think its the way to go. My sister is a first grade teacher and asked me to come into class and demonstrate my robot [...]
20 May
Starting Toward Probable Failure
Disclaimer: Several people have complained that the following article is negative or pesemistic refering to my discussion that the probable fate of our dot com is failure. I would like any new or old readers to realize that I’m merely having fun with that fact and am nothing less than overly optimistic about ThingsILearned. The [...]
15 May
Separating Reflections From a Single Image Using Local Features
I said a while ago that I’d get around to slowly posting a few of the things I’ve been working on. A week ago I presented my final project for Image Processing along with my partner Jonathan Waltz. It was to implement Separating reflections from a single image using local features, a paper by A. [...]
7 May
Emacs for Macs
About 4 years ago at Gustavus I watched one of my professors in the only computer science class I took there completely rearange and edit a large text file in a matter of seconds using only the keyboard. I was amazed and realized I was still in the dark ages of both programing and especially [...]
4 May
Combating Internet Addiction
I’ve been insanely busy the past few weeks finishing up final projects, homeworks, and examinations. I have some cool things to post when I get a chance but for now I’m leaving a simple productivity tip. My work revolves completely around computers which in my opinion have become more of a distraction than an assistant [...]
