California Pictures

September 12th, 2007

So here’s my pics from visiting California. These are from San Jose, Oakland, Monterey Bay, Santa Clara, and maybe San Francisco. Although i think SF is on another camera. Yeah, it must be as Alcatraz isn’t in this set.

California

Pop Quiz:

September 12th, 2007

Q:What’s the only thing worse than a crappy eclipse with hubcaps and a wing?

A:A crappy eclipse with hubcaps and 2 wings.

9/11 Monologues

September 11th, 2007

It’s that time of year again. A day when tradgedy is pushed aside from a bunch of egotistical pricks. Today never ceases to amaze me. Last year it was listening to howard stern replay his 9/11 show and toss in audio commentary, this year its the frigging Mets announcers on SNY explaining what they were doing on 9/11. Who the fuck cares?! I don’t care what you did that day. That day wasn’t about you. That day was about heroes and victims. Not some sleeze sitting in his office watching the whole thing on CNN. It is in so many ways inappropriate for you to stroke your ego by telling everyone what you were doing. It doesn’t fucking matter. I went to the beach that day, but I’m not blogging my day out on that because it isn’t important. God people get a life and show some modesty.

Verizon Wireless:

September 11th, 2007

zach morris phone
Why can Sprint release CDMA phones left and right and you are left in the dust. Explain why every other CDMA provider has discontinued the HTC Apache and you still sell it for $399! It’s ridiculous. While Sprint is releasing new phones you hold off on the xv6800 and i760 releases so long that Sprint is prepping their HTC Touch release! That is ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason why a company as tech oriented as yourself should have such a junk line of phones. Pick up the pace and release the i760 and xv6800 because Sprint looks more tempting everyday to people who want to use their phones for more than puff daddy ringtones.

Sprint’s Q3 Lineup Leaked?

UPDATE:
While scanning the internets i found this sweet new page regarding the Samsung i760. It’s a verizon wireless spec sheet.

Samsung i760 Spec Sheet for VZW

Why we aren’t there yet.

September 11th, 2007

Road Sign

I’m in a surprisingly pessimistic mood today regarding AI. I was thinking about search engines. We rely on them daily. They take the vast content of the web and shrink it down into some ranked subset of relevancy to a query. There’s just an arbitrary algorithm thrown in the middle to rank results. Thats fine. I just want a lead as to where the results are.

This is where certain search engines cross the line. Search engines like Ask! and Answers.com try to confuse the user by allowing them to ask questions. A user is lead to believe that they are talking to a computer that will give them the answer. In reality these sites simply parse out relevant terms using a large grammar and can’t actually reason at all.

Enter Hakia. A search engine billed as a semantic search engine. Could this possibly have an ability to reason? Of course not. Asking Hakia a question normally yields the same search results without common sense or logical sentence evaluation. Its closer as it seems to do a bit of taxonomic searching and wordnet parsing but at the end of the day, it filters and doesn’t reason.
Of course Just for the fun of it I asked that ugly Alice a question.

Human: what color is a blue car?
ALICE: Red.
Human: really?
ALICE: For real.

So in short, we aren’t there yet.

I want a LOLCAT

September 10th, 2007

lolcats funny cat pictures
stupid apartments with their dumb rules. I can’t have a cat and i want one so i can make it do funny things. Wilfred Brimley… lol you make diabetes funny.

Not an iPod

August 31st, 2007

Live from the nys fair. Sweet iPodish mp4 players.

Freebird!!!

August 31st, 2007

Heritage not hate? Well wasn’t your heritage hating black people?

CSC 515: hw2

August 30th, 2007

Homework two wants examples of polymorphism and inheritance using java. So here’s my design. Vehicles have attribute hp. Vehicles are subclassed into car truck and motorcycle. Each class has two instances. Each class also hs a class specific attribute. The Code is after the jump.

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CSC 515 – Object Oriented Programming (wk1)

August 30th, 2007

This will be the first post for CSC 515 Object Oriented Programming. This was the only assignment for week one. Although one could argue that a meta refresh is hardly building a webpage, but why reinvent the wheel.