Irrational Exuberance!

January 22, 2009 Quick walkthrough of my code for converting a very large CSV file into a very large XML file using the Python standard libraries. Despite a few issues along the way, was a very pleasant experience.

• python

January 20, 2009 When you have a lot of content to show but not enough room to it, a helpful UI pattern is to show just the content surrounding your current position. We see this in search result pages, and now in a series' list of entries on my blog.

• design
• django

January 19, 2009 The second entry in the Biased Intro to Computer Science series. Here we take a look at genetic programming, the bastard little brother of genetic algorithms.

• computer-science
• genetic-algorithms

January 2, 2009 Genetic Algorithms are one of the most natural approaches to optimization. Did you learn about evolution in grade school? Then you already "get" GA.

• computer-science
• genetic-algorithms

January 2, 2009 My new year's resolutions and a brief look at the past year. It's been a good one, and heres to a better one coming up. Some thoughts on what I'll be writing on Irrational Exuberance, what I'll be working on, and what I'll be trying to get better at.