I just installed Ubuntu (8.04), which I believe to basically be Debian with a nice interface.
There’s a neat utility called Wubi which handles the move from Windows to Ubuntu. It installs Ubuntu through Windows, handling partitioning, boot loader, and everything. It uses the Windows boot loader, adding Ubuntu as an option. It also shows up […]
I’m slowly learning to play the drums. Right now I’m working on practicing syncopation, which is basically a technique of either playing a beat where there isn’t otherwise one, or not playing a beat where one should be. It seems to be what is used to mix up a beat somewhat so that it’s not […]
Gonna be at Refresh Central Florida tomorrow night. It’s the first meeting — apparently nothing to do with Refresh Orlando.
My buddy Kevin saw my previous post on training Gmail to deliver only Viagra spam, as well as the part about how Pfizer must handle their spam filtering.
Being an enterprising person, he emailed Pfizer. Here’s their reply:
From: pfizer@pfizer.com
Date: April 15, 2008 12:53:23 PM EDT
To: EMAIL
Subject: RE:Email Validation
This email is sent by the Pfizer server. In […]
At the end of my presentation on Bayes’ Theorem at BarCampOrlando, there was some Q&A time.
I was asked a question about automatically training a spam filter, and I got into explaining how Bayesian filtering isn’t a “spam test” per-se. The simplest way to think about Bayesian filtering is that you sort email you’ve already received […]
Continue reading about Training Gmail: Sit. Stay. Good Gmail.
It happened. BarCampOrlando 2008 is over, and it freakin’ rocked.
There were a lot of really good presentations. I took some notes and thoughts down, and I’ll probably do a followup post in a day or two with some notes. There were tons of awesome people, and I liked it even more than last year since […]
Continue reading about BarCamp Came, BarCamp Saw, BarCamp was awesome.
It’s almost here! BarCamp Orlando 2008!
I’m thinking about doing a presentation on Bayesian probability. I’ve learned some stuff about it from the Loud3r project that I’ve been working on, and it’s pretty fascinating stuff. It’s a very elegant way of quickly computing the odds of something happening given a few basic pieces of information. I […]