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nagash: 1491

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:28:16 -0800

"Before Columbus, Dobyns calculated, the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that in 1491 more people lived in the Americas than in Europe."

An interesting summary of a paper about pre-Columbus human impact on the Amazon.

"Faced with an ecological problem, I was thinking, the Indians fixed it. They were in the process of terraforming the Amazon when Columbus showed up and ruined everything. [...]"

Rice

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:18 -0700

Rice is a package to build Ruby interfaces for C++ code, that makes developing C++ extensions for Ruby far simpler than using the plain C interface.

SpatialIndex

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:09:53 -0700

From the page: "Spatial Index

This package provides a general framework for developing spatial indices. Currently it defines generic interfaces, provides simple main memory and disk based storage managers and a robust implementation of an R*-tree, an MVR-tree and a TPR-tree. For more information please read the browser:spatialindex/trunk/README#latest file. In addition, the library includes a 3-dimensional R-tree visualization plug-in (example image below; requires Java3D runtime). This library is free software published under the GNU Lesser General Public License. You may copy, modify and use freely."

Electro Music From Norway - Binärpilot: Chiptunes Evolved

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:01:55 -0700

From the page: "I make electronic music and distribute it through this, my battlestar. If you're a new visitor listen to Goof first. Afterwards stream Bend or watch Anthony's video. Now embrace the robot revolution and play Tokyomatrix 3000 at full volume. Consider yourself drafted in the war against popollution. Remember to Smile. "

Graph Visualization for Apache log files | Oleg Burlacas Blog

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:33:42 -0800

From the site "Understanding what are visitors doing on a website and how they are browsing that site is crucial for information architecture specialists. I'm using AWStats and Google Analytics to monitor websites. Nevertheless, I always felt that I didn't see the whole picture. Recently I found how to view the stats from another perspective: graphs!"

macournoyers blog

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:53:41 -0800

Marc-Andr� Cournoyer is a prominent Ruby code

Cucumber - Making BDD fun

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:11:04 -0800

Behaviour Driven Development system for Ruby.

Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains (DNS and BIND, 4th Edition)

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:13:37 -0800

Overviews of how to handle delegation of subdomains of in-addr-arpa domans (reverse mapping)

Animation Using CSS Transforms & CSS | The Art of Web

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:40:31 -0800

Introduction to new CSS modules for transforming (rotating, translating etc.) elements and animating them

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall08/G22.2965-001/geneticalgex

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:42:20 -0800

Using genetic programming to "evolve" circuits on an FPGA