fighting the lack of good ideas
How useful would determining similarity of words by their unique anagrams be? For example: “ROBERT” uniquely anagrams to “BEORT”; “BOBBY” and “BOOBY” both uniquely anagram to “BOY”. Is there already a comparison algorithm that uses something like this? What potentially “interesting” discoveries might be made about vocabularical choices if you analyzed text corpora with this…
Mike Riley’s entry in The Pragmatic Programmers series, Programming Your Home – automating with Arduino, Android, and your computer – was a lot of fun. While I am not really in a position to do many of the mini projects given in the book (wrong type of house plus we rent), reading some of the…
9 years ago, Paul Graham made a controversial statement: [W]hen you choose a language, you’re also choosing a community. The programmers you’ll be able to hire to work on a Java project won’t be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your…