One of the reasons I haven’t been writing on this blog that much lately is that I’ve been terribly busy with university given that I just cleared out six exams in six months. That said, for one of my three exams that I still have left, I had to develop an inference engine written in C++. Since this was a fairly large project that had to deal with some sort of NP-complete problems (see also: unification) and given that this was the first time I wrote something serious in C++ (i.e.: that would involve more than a class and that didn’t contain the “Hello world” string) I had the chance to learn quite a few new things.
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Optimize your programs
Posted by kratorius
on December 2nd, 2008
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The last time I blogged about a new course I’m following at my university. This course, held by Pasquale Lops and Giovanni Semeraro, is very interesting at the point that I’ll be developing a custom information retrieval engine as part of my internship project. I can’t tell much more at this point since the internship haven’t started yet and I’m not sure I can release more details about this project (we’re still in the process of deciding if and how the whole thing will be released to the world).
In the meantime, I’ve been doing several experiments on this topic mostly about the memory usage and the performances of such system on limited hardware. This practically means implementing the algorithms you’ll be using and measuring the computational time they require.
And djangodash is ended…
Posted by kratorius
on June 11th, 2008
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And I’ve been 6th. So I won a shared 2 hosting plan at webfaction and a 12 pack of G33K B33R caffeinated root beer (still trying to understand what this is exactly, anyway) from bawls. Anyway, here follows a short resume of what happened from Saturday through Tuesday (if you’re asking yourself why it didn’t ended on Sunday, well, keep reading).
The competition began very well, I worked normally for the first part of the day but then I had to stop for a while. When I came back, svn and djangodash website was not working anymore. I initially thought that it was some connection issue but when I saw that other sites were working properly so they definitely had some problems.