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Everything is a Remix is a documentary that explores the source of creativity by looking at examples from our past: music, movies, computers, and more. It takes the stand that everything (even down to our biology) is the result of remix, a metaphor taken from music sampling that the documentary defines...

One question that often comes to my mind is how does geographical location (and the culture that comes with it) influence the band’s music and therefore my taste as well. So that’s why I decided to use this data to create a cartogram of my listening data.

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A joint post by Brendan Whitfield & Will Paul

Source code is often the most up to date documentation available, but while code is written in a linear fashion, the execution is a network of calls that often jump across files. Known as a function call graph, this data can help programmers quickly grasp...

Setting up a Ruby environment is deceptively simple. Easy to do, hard to maintain. The two major players, RVM and rbenv, offer more than the typical user needs or can possibly understand. Here I walk you through my setup using tools that do one thing and do it well. Coincidently all these tools that...

A collection of quotes from key players talking about the uprising response to anti-piracy legislation, from COICA to SOPA, from the edge of despair to the blackout.

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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...