http://www.acooke.org/cute/Andrew Cooke's blogFri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:50 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.acooke.org/cute/EfficientS0.html I've finally got my spam rates down to GMail levels - effectively none. Here's how to do it. This is a bit long and detailed, but it presents most details of a coherent system that works well for me. First, get Spamassassin installed and working. In OpenSuse this means installing the relevant packages. I run spamd as a service and then use spamc to call that. This avoids the overhead of sta...EfficientS0.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Lepl4Previ0.html Here's a draft of the page from the Lepl docs that describes the new features. This is *not* released so, at the tie of writing, it does *not* describe the current library, or web site (but if you're impatient, everything you read here is available for download from the source repo!). Lepl 4 - Simpler, Faster, Easier ================================ I've made Lepl simpler to use. For example...Lepl4Previ0.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:55:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/PrologLEPL0.html Here's a neat example that will be going into LEPL 4's documentation. It shows how you can use LEPL's backtracking a s search. It also shows how the new function wrappers allow you to write coroutines without having to know what a coroutine is. In case it's not clear, the "matcher" (Digit) matches a single character in the phone number and gives, as a result, all possible ways that number coul...PrologLEPL0.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:16:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/LeavingGMa0.html I am increasingly concerned about Google constructing a detailed model of "me". While I have nothing against them as a company, I am not that keen on anyone compiling a large pool of information about me - particularly one over which I have little control. A month or so ago, I tried switching to Bing for searches. Unfortunately, Bing is significantly worse than Google and good quality search res...LeavingGMa0.html Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:42:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/QuoraChall0.html I implemented this last night - it was an interesting problem (required a bit more thinking than you might naively expect). Currently it's taking 11 seconds to run, on a CPU that's likely faster than the p4 mentioned in the question, so I am going to see if I can improve it (I haven't profiled the code yet). I don't want to give away any hints, but it was interesting to see the compiler optimizer...QuoraChall0.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:49:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/GoodHaskel0.html http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2010-03-01-my-tron-bot.html The page itself is literate Haskell, and the code I read look clear but not trivial. Andrew GoodHaskel0.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:25:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Donotgogen0.html http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377 (I was sitting here coding when I suddenly realised John Cale was singing about death, and it kind of crushed me) Andrew Donotgogen0.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:40:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/TheMovieso0.html http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/08/100308fa_fact_denby?currentPage=all I still haven't seen Unforgiven. Andrew TheMovieso0.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:40:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html Disclaimer: I realise I am an unsociable bastard. And that it may be "just me" - in which case this makes no sense. And I guess it offends that kind of "be positive" American sensibility (which I know is one of your strengths, even if I find it creepy). But damn there are a lot of idiots out there. I read stuff in various places and I think, "must remember not to bother with them". But then I...Automatemy0.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:12:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Earthquake0.html We live in Santiago and woke at about 3.30am to mild shaking that was growing stronger, so we got out of bed and went to the centre of our flat, where the building is strongest. The shaking was pretty violent, and seemed to go on for a long time (I imagine it feels longer than it is, but I would say at least 30 seconds). The power went out at some point. When the shaking stopped we found a torc...Earthquake0.html Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:11:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/WhyMoreEqu0.html http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=602:better-live-in-sweden-or-anywhere-else-than-in-the-us-why-more-equal-societies-almost-always-do-b&catid=37:nicolas&Itemid=34 If those are real plots the correlation is breathtakingly strong. Andrew WhyMoreEqu0.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:40:00 GMT