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“Go to referrer” bookmarklet

August 13th, 2003

Apparently, Simon Willison’s surfing habit is similar to mine, judging from his entry on On blogging technique and better tabbed browsing.

I’ve always found the problem of losing the “back” button particularly annoying when opening multiple tabs in Mozilla Firebird via middle-clicking (which opens pages in a new tab). Jesse Ruderman’s “go to referrer” bookmarklet solves this bit of annoyance for me, at least until this is implemented directly into Firebird or as an extension.

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 13, 2003 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (0) | Category: Blogging

Google’s new built-in calculator

August 13th, 2003

This is interesting - Google now has a built-in calculator function that works whenever you enter a mathematical expression in your standard Google search box.

Now you can ask Google what is 3 times 4(same as 3 * 4) , 11 squared, the value of pi, the no. of kilometres in 1 mile and even trigonometry questions like sine(45 degrees).

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 13, 2003 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (0) | Category: Fun

Quick-list of chrome URLs for Mozilla

August 12th, 2003

Jesse Ruderman has made a summary of chrome:// URLs in his blog entry on Chrome URLs in Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird.

Unfortunately they aren’t hyperlinked, so I’ve reproduced them to open in a new window here.

• Bookmark manager
• Bookmark panel
• Download panel
• JavaScript console
• Preferences
• Privacy preferences

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 12, 2003 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (1) | Category: Mozilla

Genetic Algorithms links

August 12th, 2003

This is a collection of links on Genetic Algorithms. For archival purposes.

• Genetic Algorithms Warehouse is an excellent resource with collections of links to tutorials, papers, recommended books, software libraries, and essays. Part of AI Depot.
• The Genetic Programming Notebook is a huge collection of links related to GA(Genetic Algorithms) and GP(Genetic Programming). There is also a GP tutorial. *
• Genetic Algorithm Classifiers is a final year project by Gabriel Kevorkian and Marko Milek

that is “study of genetic algorithms and, in particular, of their application in event classification and feature selection”. Their classification algorithm is implemented as a Java applet.

• Darrell Whitley had written a GA tutorial circa 1993. *
• Alexander Schatten also has a GA tutorial.
• PMSI has short GA tutorial. *
• Frederic Dreier has a tutorial about Genetic Algorithms on his website.
• Wendy Williams has some GA tutorial slides. *
• Michael Skinner has a Genetic Algorithms Overview. *
• Eric Martel has an article on Solving Travelling Salesman Problems Using Genetic Algorithms. *
• Alex Champandard writes on Genetic Algorithm Class Design. *
• The GA Playground is a general GA toolkit implemented in Java.
• Collection of Evolutionary Computation links.
• Introduction to Genetic Algorithms slides.
• genetic-programming.org is a “source of information about the field of genetic programming”.

Note to self: * indicates printed in hard copy

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 12, 2003 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (6) | Category: Genetic Algorithms

Getting with the style switcher

August 11th, 2003

I’ve always been fascinated with JavaScript-based style switchers, like those at A List Apart and Netscape DevEdge. It’s fun to have a (limited) amount of customizability, without having to reload the webpage like those done using server-side scripting. It’s like a shiny toy for your users to play.

I got myself one of those using Paul Sowden’s Style Switcher and following the (simple) instructions at his A List Apart tutorial entitled “Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets“.

And so, redemption in a blog now sports a new Default style and a Clean style, along with the Original style.

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 11, 2003 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (2) | Category: Web development