Mazes, AI, and PathfindingTwo ways through a maze, or more specifically, two pathfinding solutions. One allows the robot to see the entire maze, including...
0 replies - 2778 views - 05/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
Nate Silver is famous for having correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 United States elections...
0 replies - 1611 views - 05/15/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
From OpsCode, a thirty-minute tale on the triumphs and hurdles Turner Broadcasting System's team encountered as it attempted to implement DevOps and deploy...
0 replies - 1822 views - 05/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
At an insurance company, I encountered an application that had been in place for thirty years. Classic flat-file, mainframe COBOL. And decades old.It had...
0 replies - 2416 views - 05/15/13 by Steven Lott in Articles
Pearson is striving to accomplish the ambitious goal of providing an education to anyone, anywhere on the planet. New data processing technologies and...
0 replies - 962 views - 05/15/13 by Marko Rodriguez in Articles
I recently refactored some code that takes longs from two different sources to compute one value. The code originally stored the longs and called a function...
0 replies - 1838 views - 05/15/13 by Jay Fields in Articles
To start, I'm assuming you know what a permutation is - basically a shuffling of a sequence of items in a particular order. A permutation of the...
0 replies - 4120 views - 05/14/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles
Though there is some decent documentation, I found that setting up Hive with a HBase back-end to be somewhat fiddly. Hopefully this guide will help you...
0 replies - 2198 views - 05/14/13 by Chase Seibert in Articles
Dogfooding refers companies using their own software. According to Wikipedia,In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for...
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Eating your own dog food is important in all walks of life: if you are a chef you should taste your own food; if you are a doctor you should treat yourself...
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The Health of PaaS via GitHub
A university student from the Netherlands just had this study accepted to the 4th International Conference on Software Business....
0 replies - 1462 views - 05/14/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles
Grails has great support for testing. We can unit test controllers, taglibs, services and much more. One of the things we can unit test are views and...
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With Stéphane Tufféry, we were working this week on a chapter of a book, entitled Statistical Learning in Actuarial Science. The chapter should be...
0 replies - 142 views - 05/14/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last...
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We tried a new retrospective prioritization/voting technique this week that worked really well. After we had generated and discussed all of our...
0 replies - 983 views - 05/13/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles
