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First day in Taiwan...

chouyu_31 Nov 14, 2010 03:16

We made it to Taipei, wandered around the city a bit, took some pictures, got to the hotel, and are tired. See Luan managed to get 7-9 hours of sleep on the plane, I may have managed 3-4. On the upside, I did fix a couple bugs in PyPE in my sleeplessness (though claims of power and/or internet on the flight over were outright lies ( Read more... )

For the mathematicians and computer scientists...

chouyu_31 Oct 22, 2010 14:33

There is a new linear systems solver for certain kinds of Ax=B problems. Good read for those of you who are into these kinds of things. http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/October/oct21_speedyalgorithm.shtml

Please pardon me while I rant for a moment about Blogspot

chouyu_31 Oct 10, 2010 16:54

One thing that is a source of annoyance to me on a regular basis is Blogspot's inability to perform formatting correctly. For example, let's say that we want to have three paragraphs with a blank line between them. In a sane blog software, you would type the three paragraphs, and include a blank line between them. Simple, right? Yes ( Read more... )

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(Untitled)

chouyu_31 Sep 12, 2010 15:29

It's been a couple months since I posted here in Livejournal. I had been syndicating my tech blogging over here, but I stopped doing that because the formatting was awful, and it was too much of a pain to re-do it for every post. But as big_bad_al offered, I probably shouldn't be syndicating my thoughts all over anyways ( Read more... )

Windows file permission and indexing service hell...

chouyu_31 Jul 18, 2010 00:03

At some point in a person's life, if they are using a multi-user operating system, they will come into some sort of file permissions hell. Linux, Mac, and other Unix-like operating systems usually have "sudo", which allows you to momentarily tell the system, "To hell with this file permissions bunk, do what I say!" If I remember correctly, ( Read more... )

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[A Dash of Technology] Building a search engine using Redis and redis-py

chouyu_31 Jul 05, 2010 15:26

For those of you who aren't quite so caught up in the recent happenings in the open source server software world, Redis is a remote data structure server. You can think of it like memcached with strings, lists, sets, hashes, and zsets (hashes that you can sort by value). All of the operations that you expect are available (list push/pop from either ( Read more... )

New tech blog? Yes.

chouyu_31 Jun 26, 2010 12:37

I've been posting to livejournal for a few months shy of 8 years now. For the 3-4 years before, I posted chunks of content to my own personal web page. Livejournal was a huge step up in the right direction. Over that time, my LJ has been a collection of opinions, politics, technology, personal posts, etc. I'm going to change that a bit ( Read more... )