j4mie

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by j4mie 16y ago
... exactly.
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by j4mie 16y ago
I think you might be fighting an uphill battle here. Some developers prefer Python, some prefer Ruby. An individual developer might be able to reel off a list of reasons why one is better than the other, but in the end it comes down to some
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by j4mie 16y ago
Of course - but one of the on-topic example questions is "How can I avoid premature convergence to a local optima on my genetic algorithm?". That has nothing to do with AI.
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by j4mie 16y ago
Why are genetic algorithms included? They are just a tool to explore multidimensional search spaces, and have nothing to do with AI unless they happen to be applied to an AI problem. It would be nice if this was separated out into "old-fash
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by j4mie 16y ago
Lots of people are using Lanyrd for group meetings, social events, and all sorts of things that aren't conferences (eg http://lanyrd.com/2010/brightonpy-october/skgp/ ). It might be worth rethinking the tagline to make it more friendly to
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by j4mie 16y ago
It's also worth taking a look at Slim: http://www.slimframework.com/
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by j4mie 16y ago
Try Idiorm (for basic ORM and query-building) and Paris (a simple Active Record implementation): http://j4mie.github.com/idiormandparis/
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Idiorm & Paris - a minimalist database toolkit for PHP5(j4mie.github.com)
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by j4mie 16y ago
Actually, I have heard one good argument against open-sourcing scientific code [1]. It's not bullet-proof, and it won't apply in all situations, but I think there's a nugget of truth in there. If I write a paper describing an algorithm (or
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by j4mie 16y ago
Thanks for the Idiorm mention :) I like the look of DumbledORM, although it takes a bit of a different approach to Idiorm (and its "child" project, Paris - http://github.com/j4mie/paris - which is an Active Record implementation with supp
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Some clients are evil and their work is toxic(hossgifford.com)
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by j4mie 16y ago
You can run Django on Jython: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/jython/