http://www.codebudo.com The Way of the Software Engineer Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:23:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en JOONE is a toolset used to build and run neural networks in Java.  To demonstrate its capability, I've built a simple supervised network and trained it on a common data set used for other machine learning projects.  By using a common data set, comparisons can be made between the different ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=67 AvantGo, the once ubiquitous application for all PDAs, is shutting down its web sync service.  Users of the service have just begun to see banners stating, "Starting June 30, Avantgo will no longer offer mobile web content." With modern wireless networks and browsers built in to new smartphones, the on ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=63 Recently I've been playing with a tool set called JOONE.  The goal of the JOONE project is to produce a fast prototyping environment for Neural Nets and a series of libraries to training these networks.  I have so far ignored the prototyping environment, but I do find the libraries quite ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=62 I recently borrowed an iPod Touch from a friend and co-worker to play with the new 2.0 firmware version and App Store.  There's a lot of potential with this new platform.  The very attractive device, capable hardware and ridiculous hype associated with iPhone makes it a great platform for developers ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=61 SkyHook Wireless is sitting on the greatest behavioral corpus known to man. This software that powers the location based services for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is a self-learning map of wireless access point to GPS locations. They seeded this database over the past several years by ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=47 Yahoo has published another tool in their series of open technologies called SearchMonkey.  The principle is that website owners can create a "data service" that runs an XSLT on their site output and then pipe it to a "presentation application" that produces a custom L&F for search results relating to ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=60 Optical Character Recognition is one of those technologies that has been around for a long time and never quite met customer demands. This is a common AI application, but I thought I'd see what's currently available publicly instead of trying to write my own from scratch. The primary ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=56 In February, the OpenCalais project was slashdotted because it had opened a bounty on a WordPress plug-in to produce RDF formatted version of blog posts.  The project sounded interesting, and my previous semantic web project had just stalled.  The specification was very loose, so I assumed that they were expecting ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=54 Apparently Google has finally gotten sick of spyware authors taking advantage of them and have devised a system for preventing automated searches. Unfortunately, they're just blocking entire IP blocks from using their service. This means that large corporate networks who's outbound net goes through a small number of ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=51 An honest man is flipping a fair coin. After flipping 'heads' seven times in a row, a banker walks up and offers the honest man a bet of $50 if the next flip is 'heads'. The banker hasn't seen the previous seven flips. Should the honest man ... http://www.codebudo.com/?p=48