Month: December 2009
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Random Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar
Neytiri Roger Ebert absolutely loved it, Jim Emerson thought it was totally lame, and io9 has an essay up about it being a recapitulation of the “White Man’s Guilt” plotline. Here are my thought’s on James Cameron’s Avatar: Uncanny Valley: Doesn’t apply to this movie at all, which was one of my disappointments with it.…
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CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Assignments, Discussions, and MiniCases
From CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 01 Assignment CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 01 Discussion CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 01 Minicase CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 02 Assignment CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 02 Discussion CIS210 Systems Analysis and Development: Week 02 Minicase CIS210…
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Plugging a Century of Climate Data into Eureqa
Friday I posted some links to the Cornell’s free data analysis software Eureqa. The video tutorials take a collection of data points from a swinging pendulum over time and then have the Eureqa software determine the function that best explains its wave using an evolutionary algorithm. I played with the software a bit this weekend,…