Posted on July 7, 2011
Computing on the cheap with Amazon EC2
We tend to host our own servers, because we like it, and because we can. (We also speak in the third person when there’s just one of us, but there’s no accounting for some people). Nothing fancy, mind… Read More
Posted on June 14, 2011
Unhappy Bits about Bitcoins
I wandered across bitcoin not too long ago, during some random web crawling, and downloaded it in May. I installed it, ran it, realized I was behind a firewall, killed it, uninstalled it and forgot about it for… Read More
Posted on June 12, 2011
Mosaics and More Algorithm Love
My mom (whose website I should update) recently celebrated her birthday. My mom is an avid shutterbug, and abuses the digital camera we got for her a handful of Christmases ago to the tune of 10,000 photos a… Read More
Posted on June 6, 2011
Hey, Happy Technologist got Published!
I’m rather excited about the fact that, after only six actual posts on the new blog, one got picked up for publication. The slightly altered version is available at Technology First, and you can get the full newspaper… Read More
Posted on May 29, 2011
Musings from a few weeks of data mining
Ok, I’m still no expert data miner by a large margin, but I’ve learned a LOT in just a few weeks of playing with the Heritage Health Prize data. The folks on the Kaggle/HHP Chat Board are pretty… Read More