λwill.paul

Crazy long title, I know, but it’s not as complicated as it sounds. For my Natural Language Processing class we recently approached the problem of Word Sense Disambiguation from a Machine Learning perspective (we also looked at others, including lookup approaches like Lesk), using the simple, but...

This is a continuation of my short series (part 1) on how I setup Vim to be a little more fully featured looking at the custom shortcuts. By no means is my setup the best, but there are a few neat things I’ve stumbled upon and my thought is that by aggregating them here someone else might find something...

As someone that came to Vim from Sublime Text (through the excellent Vi-ntage mode), one thing that held me back was just how annoying the default Vim settings are. In a way looking back at it that wasn’t a bad thing, it let me really craft my own configuration that I’m pretty happy with, but always...

A talk by Rick Hickey, the author of the JVM-based functional programming language Clojure, about the value of writing simpler, non-complected code. The talk was given to a functional programming audience, so some of the material (and the jokes) may go over OO programmer’s heads at times. Along the...

Pop music and our music from different genres seems untouchable, Elton John seems untouchable, you know? Obviously, they create that, they force that that idea into your mind, that the superstars are untouchable. So just being able to manipulate it and do what ever you want, put Elton John in a...

One of the first things you realize when working with any sort of linguistic data is just how ambiguous just about anything we say or write really is. From the smallest units of sound (what was that garbled bit of sound?) to the document unit of meaning (what was that article about?), there aren’t...

Two posts ago I talked about static site generators in general and Middleman specifically. After that I talked about how to use Middleman for blogging and again talked about different use cases. Today I am going to talk about deployment options and how you can get your site onto the web.

The Options

Everyone in the frontend community likes to hate on tables, it’s like Comic Sans in the design community. And this is for mostly good reasons, tables for layouts are pretty much unnecessary in this day in age (unless you’re looking to center something vertically, then maybe you can use it in your...