Feb 10, 2003
The Globe & Mail: Dude, yer gettin’ arrested. Here’s something light before I enter into another barrage of political meandering:
Dude! The actor who gained fame and a cult following as the slacker Steven in commercials for Dell computers was arrested buying a small bag of marijuana, police said.
Feb 10, 2003
It’s as if I have a “Get Your War On radar”. After conceding to an impulse to check the Get Your War On pages, I find out that there’s a new page of strips out.
Sadly, this is one of the less funny Get Your War On pages, probably because Office White Man is … Read more
Feb 8, 2003
Let us suppose for a moment that all the claims laid out in Colin Powell’s brief to the UN Security Council are true. (If you haven’t read the speech, do so now.) This includes Iraqi possession of “weapons of … Read more
Feb 6, 2003
Electronic Frontier Canada has returned after a two-year hiatus. EFC’s purpose is to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms remain protected as new computing, communications, and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
Jeffrey Shallit, EFC vice-president, cites lack of … Read more
Feb 3, 2003
First Iraq’s weapons declaration contained “obvious omissions”, now the evidence against Iraq is “unmistakable”, and I’m certain that the Bush administration has thrown in more than a few uses of the words “clear” or “clearly” in its condemnation of Iraq. If the argument … Read more
“The Echo Nest Remix API is the Internet Synthesizer that lets you make things with music and video.” The API has Python bindings. Nice.
“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.”
There are some nice examples of The Swinger output in the above link, … Read more
Pandas aims to provide: a) a set of fast NumPy-based data structures optimized for panel, time series, and cross-sectional data analysis; b) a set of tools for loading such data from various sources (database, flat file / text) and providing efficient ways to persist the data; and c) a A robust statistics and econometrics library … Read more
Data stored on Google Storage for Developers can be analysed using Google Prediction API. The engine uses machine-learning algorithms and can be trained to spot patterns in data to predict future outcomes.