Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Monkeys do it better
While cleaning up my temporary bookmarks, I found this old link: Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test, Memory Test being this game. I scored constantly around 30, and was disappointed I couldn't go higher than 34 in few tries :(
Darwin Awards 2007
The Darwin Awards 2007 has been announced! Knock yourself out by reading the most stupid things humans can attempt.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
New site design
My old site made with PHP3 got a bit broken when my web hotel upgraded its servers to the latest software, including PHP5. It resulted in very broken website where even navigation got busted. I admit that my old code from 2001 was crappy, and the site was due to be recoded for about six years already.
Being left with a broken site was finally the incentive to do something about it. I took an open source design to begin my work with from Open Source Web Designs, designed by Aaron Ganschow, to save time. Hopefully it pays off in the end, currently my new site design is as default as it can be.
I have grand plans about the content on the site. Many of the old stuff that used to be there have disappeared, but new content is slowly finding its way to there. I just have to check and re-check the code, and add the new layout in them. That will take some time, but eventually it pays off.
Check it out here: tanskanen.org.
Being left with a broken site was finally the incentive to do something about it. I took an open source design to begin my work with from Open Source Web Designs, designed by Aaron Ganschow, to save time. Hopefully it pays off in the end, currently my new site design is as default as it can be.
I have grand plans about the content on the site. Many of the old stuff that used to be there have disappeared, but new content is slowly finding its way to there. I just have to check and re-check the code, and add the new layout in them. That will take some time, but eventually it pays off.
Check it out here: tanskanen.org.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Lack of updates
I probably don't have any readers for this blog, as I haven't announced it anywhere (well, maybe the Facebook notes auto-import thingie counts as an announce?), so there is no-one waiting for my updates on this blog. Its been well over a month now, and I try to sum it up now.
Lets start with the Facebook. Since I joined it, I spent half a day finding my friends (more or less successfully) and configuring the glittery apps the place is full of. As anyone who uses Facebook knows, the apps seem to be "the salt" of Facebook, and they are true. I wouldn't be using Facebook nearly as much if there wasn't any.
However, there already is too many apps; the same functionalities exist in many similar apps and some users finding one apps before the other, they spread that one to their friends and they pass it to their friends and so on. Eventually you get invited to the "same app" hiding in different skin a gazillion time by different friends. And oh boy, is that annoying!
Well, in my book Facebook gets a B- for a good try. We'll see what other sites the future brings.
Another thing I've spent a bit of my time is the Netflix Prize competition. In short, they are offering one million dollars to first team to improve their movie recommendation system accuracy by 10%. It has been running for a year now and team closest to the prize has achieved about 8.5% improvement.
Realistically, I don't believe I can beat even that, but I'm using the competition as a framework for my Artificial Intelligence software project at the university. Getting study credits for something I have personal interest is a great thing! Another interesting thing about the competition is that you get an "authentic" dataset, with 18000 movie titles, 500000 users and 100 million ratings. That is hard to get by and registering to the competition only to download the dataset is worth it.
Thats all for now, more updates later!
Lets start with the Facebook. Since I joined it, I spent half a day finding my friends (more or less successfully) and configuring the glittery apps the place is full of. As anyone who uses Facebook knows, the apps seem to be "the salt" of Facebook, and they are true. I wouldn't be using Facebook nearly as much if there wasn't any.
However, there already is too many apps; the same functionalities exist in many similar apps and some users finding one apps before the other, they spread that one to their friends and they pass it to their friends and so on. Eventually you get invited to the "same app" hiding in different skin a gazillion time by different friends. And oh boy, is that annoying!
Well, in my book Facebook gets a B- for a good try. We'll see what other sites the future brings.
Another thing I've spent a bit of my time is the Netflix Prize competition. In short, they are offering one million dollars to first team to improve their movie recommendation system accuracy by 10%. It has been running for a year now and team closest to the prize has achieved about 8.5% improvement.
Realistically, I don't believe I can beat even that, but I'm using the competition as a framework for my Artificial Intelligence software project at the university. Getting study credits for something I have personal interest is a great thing! Another interesting thing about the competition is that you get an "authentic" dataset, with 18000 movie titles, 500000 users and 100 million ratings. That is hard to get by and registering to the competition only to download the dataset is worth it.
Thats all for now, more updates later!
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