3 month ago
nelson : A* demo - My old friend Amit is doing some demos of game programming in Flash
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6 month ago
nelson : sparse sets - Clever data structure for very efficiently working with spare sets
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10 month ago
joshua : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - interesting incremental feature detection algorithm
gleuschk : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - awesome step-by-step on attacking the netflix problem. magic ingredient: singular value decomposition
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12 month ago
adamrg : Another step toward image unreality - Content preserving image resizing. Mind blowing work.
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Image resize - Demo of a wicked-cool smart image-resizing technique, from the SIGGRAPH conference. [via] #
deusx : YouTube - Image resize - Almost kind of creep - an image resize algorithm that calculates least-important seams in an image to remove as it's resized / scaled.
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later - fascinating
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13 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Algorithm March! with Ninjas! - "From Dattebayo's fansub release of Pythagoras Switch. I'm trying to hype up this dance so people will perform it in cosplay skits."
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : How to Write a Spelling Corrector - How to Write a Spelling Corrector. Example code in Python, by Peter Norvig.
wearehugh : How to Write a Spelling Corrector
jcgregorio : How to Write a Spelling Corrector - You don't really understand something until you can code it up in less than 100 lines of Python.
bmilleare : How to Write a Spelling Corrector
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Sorting Algorithm Animations - in matrix form. nice.
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21 month ago
gleuschk : How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack - nice general-math-audience explanation, good references
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26 month ago
wearehugh : ShortestSudokuSolver - Mark Byers' Website
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29 month ago
gleuschk : Don Norman's jnd.org / Toilet Paper Algorithms: I didn't know you had to be a computer scientist to use toilet paper. - I heard somewhere that Don Knuth had a paper about this problem
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30 month ago
gleuschk : Seed: Microscopy and the Art of Sudoku - an alleged algorithm to solve sudoku
deusx : Seed: Microscopy and the Art of Sudoku - "When Cornell physicist Veit Elser attempted to demystify an esoteric imaging problem for biologists, he had no idea his solution would also help subway riders and break room loiterers around the world figure out those challenging, Sudoku puzzles."
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32 month ago
deusx : Google Research Publications - MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters - "MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets."
Matthew M. Boedicker : MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters - from Google
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36 month ago
Andy Baio : Wolfram Tones - fun with generative music, but actually listenable
joshua : A NEW KIND OF MUSIC - mostly, they sound awful
jimray : WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music - You can get 'em as ringtones, which is kinda cool, I guess
Eric Meyer : WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music - Incredible. I've already generated a tone I'm ready to buy. [via Tantek] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : WolframTones, music generator - (via metafilter) [via]
gleuschk : WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music - they're almost all completely intolerable (latin is the best), but fascinating nonetheless
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39 month ago
plasticbag : A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their patent documents... - "Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at..."
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44 month ago
cameron : AI-Categorizer - General purpose categorization engine (including naive Bayes, SVM, decision trees and others)
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