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Teaching kids how to code with Minecraft
Buy Minecraft Modding with Forge.I am jealous of kids these days. The sheer breadth and depth of technology and software at their disposal is staggering, everything from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and...
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Creative computing with Clojure
Clojure is gaining traction and popularity as a programming language. Both enterprises and startups are adopting this functional language because of the simplicity, elegance, and power that it brings...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 May 2015
Roboto — Google’s signature font is open sourced (Apache 2.0), including the toolchain to build it. Pregel: A System for Large Scale Graph Processing — a walk through a key 2010 paper from Google, on...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 May 2015
Internet Trends 2015 (PDF) — Mary Meeker’s preso. Messaging + Notifications = Key Layers of Every Meaningful Mobile App, Messaging Leaders Aiming to Create Cross-Platform Operating Systems That Are...
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Add depth to your project with practical web audio
There is little debate that Web Audio is cool. Take for example Stepkit by Brent Jackson (embedded below). It’s definitely a fun toy to play with, but most of us probably couldn’t think of how this...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 June 2015
Toyota’s Spaghetti Code — Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables. And he was critical of Toyota watchdog supervisor — software to detect the death of a task — design. He testified that Toyota’s...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 June 2015
16 Everyday Objects Enchanted by Technology (Business Insider) — I want a Skype cabinet between our offices at work. Software Engineering Blogs — ALL the blogs! MarI/O (YouTube) — clear explanation of...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 July 2015
How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Amazon) — Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among...
View ArticleFour short links: 7 July 2015
CS 61AS — Berkeley self-directed Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course. Harbingers of Failure (PDF) — We show that some customers, whom we call ‘Harbingers’ of failure,...
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Parallax scrolling for iOS with Swift and Sprite Kit
Buy iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook, 2nd Edition. Up until the mid 1990s, the pinnacle of video game graphics was parallax scrolling: the use of multiple scrolling backgrounds, which created a...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 November 2015
DeepDive — Stanford project to create structured data (SQL tables) from unstructured information (text documents) and integrate such data with an existing structured database. DeepDive is used to...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 November 2015
Behind the Hoverboard Craze (BoingBoing) — Bernstein is interested in this phenomenon as “memeufacturing” — a couple of social-media stars (or garden-variety celebs) post viral videos of themselves...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 January 2016
Chimera (Paper a Day) — the authors summarise six main lessons learned while building Chimera: (1) Things break down at large scale; (2) Both learning and hand-crafted rules are critical; (3)...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 February 2016
Social Intelligence in Mario Bros (YouTube) — collaborative agents built by cognitive AI researchers … they have drives, communicate, learn from each other, and solve problems. Oh, and the agents are...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 February 2016
Princeton Bitcoin Book (PDF) — The Coursera course accompanying this book had 30,000 students in its first version, and it was a success based on engagement and end-of-course feedback. Large...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 March 2016
Strategic Dialogue Management via Deep Reinforcement Learning (Adrian Colyer) — a neural network learns to play Settlers of Catan. Is nothing sacred? scala school — Twitter’s instructional material...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 March 2016
Accountable Machines — Some of the proposals discussed at our workshop included having machine learning processes verify the outcomes of algorithmic decisions and provide transparency, and that...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 April 2016
Centaurs Not Butlers (Matt Jones) — In competitive chess, teams of human and non-human intelligences are referred to as ‘Centaurs’ How might we create teams of human and non-human intelligences in the...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 April 2016
U.S. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival — Warwick Mills is joining the Defense Department, universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and nearly 50 other...
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