This post contains NO spoilers. I saw The Time Traveler’s Wife with my wife today. I had read the book about a year ago, and had been looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed — I thought the movie was very moving and captured the spirit of the book, even if it didn’t capture [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Books and movies
Posted: 16 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: adaptations, books, douglas adams, movies, time traveler's wife
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Next total solar eclipse in Atlanta
Posted: 4 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: astronomy, futureme, solar eclipse, wolfram alpha
I already knew Wolfram|Alpha could do some cool astronomy calculations, like comparing the escape velocities of the Galilean moons. A recent W|A blog post also pointed out that you can calculate the next lunar eclipse. So I tried to see when the next solar eclipse would be for my area and it came up with [...]
Java maps and sorting
Posted: 1 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: algorithms, code, collections, java, programming, sorting
I’m always a little annoyed I have to implement sorting Map keys by their values myself in Java. It seems like they should be a part of the standard Collections library or something. Maybe they are and I just haven’t seen it? My solution (gist) is based on feedback from Josh in the comments to [...]
Lazyfeed: the missing link in the evolution of RSS?
Posted: 1 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, rss, information trapping, lazyfeed, exploratory search, topic detection, google alerts, invites, recommender system
When Lazyfeed announced a limited round of beta invites on TechCrunch, I admit, I lusted after them. Only 250? I wanted to be one! But alas, I was put on the waiting list. It’s a decent marketing strategy for building up some hype. When I finally did get my invite, I tried them out for [...]
