science, technology, and sarcasm
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2008
Often I find that I need a simple and easy to use way to redirect stdin and stdout to a file instead of the terminal. Its especially useful if you have a large program and your requirements change to require that files can be used for io, or maybe you dont want to use a [...]
Posted in Networking, Software, svn, trac on May 28th, 2008
Everone has a favorite networking tool that they love to use. When it comes down to it, for me, netcat is the absolute best of class. There are a couple of things it doesn’t do, however. I was looking for a replacement bit of software for the RIT Buoy project (there would be a link [...]
Posted in Website on May 26th, 2008
Well, its been a little longer since I moved to Dreamhost, and I have a bit more news about their least favored feature – server uptime. A lot of places seem to note that Dreamhost has had poor, or at least, not very good uptime. The question is, is this a myth, or is it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2008
Well, the end of the academic year is here at RIT, and with it comes the end of an age. As some of you may know, me and my brother have shared a lot since we were young, not the least of which has been some time at RIT. He was an Imaging Science major, [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Software on May 20th, 2008
Recently, I programmed a neural network that (successfully) learned to optimize its payoff while playing blackjack. However, I did it in C. A little research showed that most people don’t use C or C++ for AI applications, and that functional languages (as well as those that have internal support for the use of symbols) were [...]
Posted in Website on May 15th, 2008
Well, as some of my readers have heard, I switched from GoDaddy to dreamhost in an attempt to get away from a terrible management system, a clutter of ads, and frankly, paying too much for far too little. I did my search and looked at places from globat.com, dreamhost.com, mediatemple.com, and more. I ended up [...]
Recently, I was hit with quite the quandary: My previous hosting service, GoDaddy.com, wasn’t providing me with good service, their site management software was a nightmare, and they were almost impossible to navigate. I didn’t get shell access, no SVN, they don’t even provide the newest wordpress software. All in all, it was just a [...]
Posted in svn on May 10th, 2008
Hey everyone! If you are looking for a SVN project of mine, they are all located at the server: svn.adamrisi.com. However, if you go there, it will being you here, so pick a project here and you can see a little more about it on the SVN, or even better, at their trac servers. torus [...]
Posted in trac on May 9th, 2008
Hi, and thanks for looking at my available open projects that are being managed with trac! I’ve got a couple of projects going, and if you would like to get to their development pages, then take a look here. torus development trac – this is the trac for torus, the peer to peer engine. lemon [...]
Posted in About on May 9th, 2008
As I have attended 3 different colleges thus-far (one for my first year, one for summers, and one for well, everything else, you may see a couple of different places listed as the location where I published some content. My three colleges are: RIT – Rochester Institute of Technology (current) UVM – University of Vermont [...]