In order to foster greater creativity within myself, I would like to make a habit of sketching daily. To be honest, at this point in my life I don’t necessarily have time to sketch every day, but I figure it can’t hurt to start now – maybe after graduation I can sketch more often. So…
Read moreThe new species
Juan Enriquez coins “Homo Evolutus,” predicts humans will take control over their own evolution within my lifetime. I’m actually excited about this! What a fascinating threshold our faith will cross when the average person’s direct experience of creation is enhanced by technology.
Read moreSource Code Up
The source code for SVMTrainer 0.30 is now available. Go to the new SVMTrainer page, download the code, and see if you can get better results than I did.
Read moreTo-do from CCSC-NW 08
Here is a list of the potential changes to SVMTrainer that were suggested to me during this weekend’s conference. Searcher Implement conditions on acceptable web document sizes to optimize document retrieval time Try using a small initial search as a seed to get other search terms and expand the diversity of my training set –…
Read moreFocusing
The last month has taken me through a couple of choices in how to focus this project. First, I attempted to design a ‘version 2’ that would use project files. The idea was to give a project a group of categories to use, as well as persistent result sets and a dictionary that can be…
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