Nigel Horspool (UVic CompSci)

shrink

How to shrink a git repository

d

Linux Assembly and Disassembly an Introduction - Introduction to gcc, gdb and objdump.

lasam

LaSaM

Sunday, February 1st, 2009
8:00 PM

Presented by LaSaM

Kristy Farkas (melodica, harmonium, percussion), Tina Pearson (accordion, flute, percussion) and Chris Reiche (keyboards, percussion) with guest performers Alfons Fear (trumpet), Rodney Sharman (flute), George Tzanetakis (sax), Max Murray (tuba), Mason Koenig and Corey Rae (percussion).

lasam

LaSaM

check this out

MarGrid in Flash. By sness.

yuv

YUV

Convert from RGB to YUV with:



Convert from YUV to RGB with:

moblin

Intel releases Linux-based Moblin 2 Alpha for Netbooks

xna

xna - Makes Games Programming Easier, Not Easy.

music

Velato - is an esoteric programming language by User:Rottytooth, which uses MIDI files as source code. Programs in Velato, like in Fugue, are defined by the pitch and order of notes. Velato is intended to allow for flexibility in composition, so functional programs will not necessarily sound like random notes. There is a tendency for Velato programs to have jazz-like harmonies.

Sweet.

git + zsh = fun

zsh git status

xnor

xnor

program

Anatomy of a Program in Memory

milky way

som

SOM Toolbox at HUT in Finland. The source.

R

Data Mining with R - A free ebook

elephant

Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts - A new language by the John McCarthy

old ways

Sometimes the Old Ways Are Best by Brian Kernighan

catmull-rom

Catmull-Rom Splines
Spline (mathematics)
Catmull-Rom splines
ConnectDots
Overhauser
Curves in C++

selection

A 3D Object Picking Technique that Uses OpenGL
Tutorial 27 : Object Selection

bytes in a page

What are BYTES?
How to find out how many characters (bytes) there are in a book:

median cut

Color Reduction and Image Dithering
Median Cut
Color quantization
Median cut algorithm (C++)

lenticular

param arc

Parameterization by arc length

Parameterization by Arc Length
Parametric curves and arc length
Arc Length Parameterization
Actionscript Arc Length Parameterization
glVertex
Overhauser splines
Bezier and Catmull-Rom Curve
Catmull-Rom at Wikipedia


Catmull-Rom - Sweet sweet resource

q(t) = 0.5 *( (2 * P1) +
(-P0 + P2) * t +
(2*P0 - 5*P1 + 4*P2 - P3) * t2 +
(-P0 + 3*P1- 3*P2 + P3) * t3)

gl man

Open GL manpages

utf8

UTF-8 at wikipedia
Qt problems with UTF-8
UTF-8 parsing in QT3
Problem with utf8 encoded XML to QString::fromUtf8()
How to create a simple Xml file?
xml, UTF-8, ISO 8859-1 & currency symbols
UTF-8 and Unicode Standards
Encode your XML documents in UTF-8
XML basics

tech

Ask proggit: Can you recommend technical presentation software for Linux?

ga keyboard

Using a Genetic Algorithm to evolve a better keyboard.

why

Why Google Employees Quit

except

What Conditions (Exceptions) are Really About

SOMba - Co-creative music generation by tracking dancers

higher quality version

catmull rom

Catmull-Rom splines at wikipedia
Catmull-Rom

latex

From lyx-users

If you get the error:

Paragraph ended before \Gin@iii was complete

Try adding

\usepackage{graphicx}

ruby filename path

 
irb(main):007:0> require 'pathname'
irb(main):007:0> Pathname.new('/opt/local/bin/ruby').basename
=> #<Pathname:ruby>

dtw2

Dynamic Time Warping
Dynamic Time Warping at Wikipedia

dtw

Dynamic Time Warping

icmc 2009

ICMC 2009 Montreal, Canada

icad

The 15th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)

May 18-22, 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark

music conferences

Music Technology Conferences & Festivals

dtw

Dynamic time warping

cbmi

CBMI 2009

precision

Average precision of precision and recall

uvic latex

Latex Templates for M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses at UVIC.

cxxtestgen

cxxtest/cxxtestgen.py --error-printer -o Selector_runner.cpp TestSelector.h

qt opengl

Add

QT += opengl

To the .pro file.

neat

sanuk

Sanuk is an awesome restaurant in Victoria, BC, Canada.

font

Better CSS Font Stacks

ocaml

Standalone web applications using OCaml + Ocsigen, benchmarked against Rails. Nice!

truemotion

Truemotion - 3D position tracking via sensing electromagnetic fields, also here. Nice.

apollo

Apollo landing sites mapped by Chandrayaan - Finally we can put an end to the conspiracy stories.

sublinear

Sublinear time algorithms: when O(n) isn't good enough (PDF)

saturn

daisyowl

Performing with the TouchBox

waveTable: demo 01

Assistive Music Browser on the IPhone

Eye Gaze Controlled Assistive Music Browser

KeyBoard Controlled Assistive Music Browser

Antarctica Condition 1 Weather

480 cores

Nvidia announces a graphics card with 480 cores. OMFG.

girl with a pearl earring

irc last.fm

How we use IRC at Last.fm

python sequences

Seamless sequence output in Python 3.0

ga ml

Genetic Mona Lisa

xorgfs

xorgfs - A FUSE filesystem for exposing information from the X11 system. Wacky!

no automaton

Stop Being an Automaton and Be a Programmer

Emacs.
Emacs.
Emacs.

app store

My first app just got published to the app store! Here's what I learned...
More iPhone App thoughts. I've had an app in the store for 3 months.

kernel

Linux 2.6.28's five best features

- ext4 - Sweet
- GEM Memory Manager for Graphics
- Disk Shock Protection
- Staging Drivers
- Network improvements

martian sunset

ec

ElectroClash

somatic

Somatic Experiencing - is a form of therapy aimed at relieving and resolving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client?s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences).

walk in the woods

PSYCHOLOGY: A Walk in the Woods
Gilbert Chin

Spending time in the outdoors is commonly regarded as a wholesome approach to coping with the cacophony of contemporary developed societies. But does immersion in a natural environment lead to more than simply a sense of feeling refreshed--that is, might the metaphorical recharging of one's batteries be real? Berman et al. find that the less obtrusive sensory stimuli provided by a walk through an arboretum enabled people to perform better on a standard working memory task (backward digit span), in comparison to the stimuli of a stroll through a downtown landscape. Subsequent testing revealed a specific effect of scenic as opposed to urban settings on the executive portions (versus the alerting or orienting components) of an attentional network task, suggesting that a brief hiatus from focused application of attention allows for the replenishment and renewal of cognitive control centers. -- GJC

Psychol. Sci. 19, 1207 (2008).

SOMba - Co-creative music generation by tracking dancers

my SOMba!

opml

Python OPML

To install OPML for Python on Fedora 10:

yum install setuptools -y
easy_install opml

clustering

clustering with R

literate programming

A really neato wiki for Literate Programming. It shows the program source code along with an article about what the program does. Go Knuth 2009!

reverse

Python trick to reverse a sequence

query7

Query String in HTTP

acm

ACM Proceedings template

qt opengl

Qt 4.1 examples
Qt tutorial - Chapter 14 - OpenGL
Nates OpenGL tutorial
QtOpenGL
Hello GL
GL rotating cube
OpenGL cube with GLUT
ccube.txt
Cube texture map
cube.c
What's new in Qt 4.2

qt

Qt Keys
QKeyEvent

petra

PETRAE 2009 - The 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

noacpi

I was getting a bug where the system would hang after the message

setting system clock using the hardware clock

There is a workaround here.

The --directisa option in /etc/init.d/hwclock worked for me.

Also, if this still doesn't work, make sure that the bios clock is not wildy inaccurate, this can also cause it to hang.

rsync

I just found out about the handy "-L" option in rsync:

-L, --copy-links            transform symlink into referent file/dir

lirc

problem with lirc

stabil

If you get a message:

Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds.

With Fedora 10, check out this thread for a fix.

rhz

rhizomes.manifesto - Rhizomes oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in a tree structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow established patterns.

monster hat

You need a monster hat.

Inspired from a strip from The Devil's Panties, a fantastic web comic.

courses

The courses I'm taking this term:

CSC 578B - Computer Animation
CSC 554 - Fault Tolerant Computing
CSC 561 - Multimedia Systems

spotify

Spotify - A company with a new way to do music streaming, with cooperation from the major music labels. Uses a hybrid p2p system to deliver popular songs quickly as well as long tail songs from their servers. Neat.

return

after web 2.0, the return of innovation.

tw

twitter is my village.

flickr

Easily browse flickr images with ihardlyknowher.com.

This is so awesome and LOL, because it's just a bunch of images, just like web pages back in 1995, but it's so much better than that fancy web 2.0 nonsense for looking at images quickly.

There is something here that needs exploring. How much of the new navigation tools that we have created actually make it harder for people to get at the information they want?

Is this web 3.0 in the making? Take the data from web 2.0 sites and present it in the way that the users really want, which might be just a list of pictures on a web page, like this?

I love the mouseovers here as well, which give you more information about the picture with a javascript rollover, this also reveals a link to the original flickr page. Clicking on the image makes it bigger, and another click makes it small again.