One Man Hacking

A few days ago, I discovered an error in the mathematics of a paper (on neural network optimization) being prepared for publication by a ver...

This is the rare "political" post. Those not interested, move right on. Enough is enough. In my opinion it is foolishness to ini...

As you can see I am not too much of a photographer (the laptop screens are much duller in the photos than in real life. I have no clue why...

When you are an independent consultant, you see a lot of crazy people. The most dreaded monster in this bestiary is that of the Non-Resident...

I am sometimes asked by clients to implement Artificial Intelligence based solutions to problems involving massive datasets, real time requi...

from Xooglers Sergey once asked a large assemblage of Googlers what our greatest corporate expense was. “Health insurance!” was one answ...

an IBM -Lenovo Thinkpad z60m . The model I chose is a marginally less powerful (and less expensive) than the one reviewed in the article I l...

A brief update. I am now thinking of buying either a MacBook Pro (if it comes out before Feb 28, the day my friend - who will bring it to B...

Does anyone else get the feeling that "Agile" is now a religion with its holy books, many patriarchs, its churches, and commandme...

I have always wanted a powerbook. And with some "out of band" money coming in from a consulting assignment, I was planning to buy ...

It is official. My friend Rajesh and I just shook (virtual) hands over an interstate phone connection on an agreement to create a startup c...

In simpler words, how many managers do you have per engineer? Look around you . Count the number of managers in your floor/division/office. ...

Geenerally I don't post "just links" on my blog. But this time I'll make an exception, because these are very lucid explan...

from Jeffrey Shallit's blog . ....Blondlot's tale is a cautionary one. By contrast, I offer a case where the proper behavior was di...

Joel Spolsky writes on the perils of Java schools .Read it. It is an excellent article. Now dwell on the fact that many of the same conclu...

Over the last year or so, I have worked alone. This was a nice change from being part of a "globally distributed team", attending...

Martin Fowler's post on "Humane Interfaces" has set off a maelstrom in the 'blogosphere'. (He has referred to some of...

Eric Kidd explains on his blog why he thinks ' Ruby is an Acceptable Lisp '. His thesis is debunked very effectively in the comment...

I am not available for consulting assignments till (at least) the end of March 2006. Before writing to me to enquire about availability, do ...

Bill Caputo writes Perhaps the Agile of today -- represented by things like the Microsoft TDD article, the attempts by many consulting fi...