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Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
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If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
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I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
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How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
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Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
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Projects
Research...AITetris
This is a simple model of an artificial intelligence learning program that plays Tetris. It's a bit choppy and hackish around the edges and may require a lot of work to get it to a satisfactory state. It basically works by heavy use of a critic function. If the critic determines that a specific decision tree answer is absolutely silly, it will find what it thinks is the best possible answer by means of brute force.
It has two modes: one that depends solely on the critic for a "control" and the other is a watch mode where a human can play Tetris and it will basically save the data to the tree.
There is no GUI and the interactive and non-interactive modes are console based. It's written in c++, is heavily dependant on the STL, and interfaces with c5.0 on the local system.
Tetris Story
Slashdot | Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Tetris AI
Slashdot | Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard [slashdot.org]
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Tetris AI [www.colinfahey.com]
Research...AITetrisAITetris
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 by digitalpeer
It has two modes: one that depends solely on the critic for a "control" and the other is a watch mode where a human can play Tetris and it will basically save the data to the tree.
There is no GUI and the interactive and non-interactive modes are console based. It's written in c++, is heavily dependant on the STL, and interfaces with c5.0 on the local system.
Further Reading
Tetris Story
Slashdot | Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Tetris AI
External Links Summary
Tetris Story [vadim.www.media.mit.edu]Slashdot | Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard [slashdot.org]
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Tetris AI [www.colinfahey.com]
