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Archive for August, 2003
Nature’s flawed programming
In: Fun
24 Aug 2003I came upon this interesting tidbit in my Artificial Intelligence readings. A sphex (a kind of wasp) will, in the process of building a nest, dig a burrow, find an insect and sting it, drag it to the burrow, enter the burrow again to inspect the nest, drag the insect inside, and lay its eggs. [...]
Dealing with colors
In: Web development
21 Aug 2003Several tools to help the web developer in color scheming and color management. Iconico’s Color Picker is a free Windows application that helps you pick colors and save them to your swatch. Very good for picking colors from sites and pictures. My only grouse is that it doesn’t allow you to save your swatch. Color [...]
Genetic Algorithms links 2
In: Programming
21 Aug 2003More GA links. For archival purposes. ai-junkie is a great website with a GA tutorial written “in plain English”. Evolutionary Computation lecture notes by Thorsten Schnier. More Evolutionary Computation lecture notes by Riccardo Poli, including a section on Classifier Systems. Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms: Principles, Methods and Algorithms is an introduction to Evolutionary and Genetic [...]
DHTML Lemmings
In: Fun
21 Aug 2003This is nostalgic – DHTML Lemmings. I still haven’t figured out how he did it (he says it’s “all written in JavaScript” – pretty amazing!), but it plays just like the classic Lemmings. Two thumbs up, for the spectacular use of JavaScript, and also just because it’s Lemmings.
Tracking entry referrers with PHP in MT
16 Aug 2003I’ve always wanted to track referrers for each entry and at the same time be able to tell which entries are the more popular ones by keeping track of each entry’s hit count. So I did the smart thing first by Googling to see if anyone else had done it. I found the AWStatsReferers MT [...]
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