Tech Review: Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 boosts graphics performance to prepare for phones, tablets

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/ubuntu-13-04-boosts-graphics-performance-to-prepare-for-phones-tablets/

• Raring Ringtail
• supported for 5 years of 12.04
• interim release
• support for 9 months
• 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) edition
• converge across mobile and desktops
• MIR a replacement for X

Ubuntu servers fly higher in the clouds

• high availability capabilities for OpenStack
• VMware to integrate OpenStack-based networks with VMware's server and network virtualization software
• joint support to customers
• Juju
• deploy to Amazon, OpenStack, and other clouds
• Charms
• open soruce workload
• for most major Web development
• databases
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Cassandra
• allows developer to select best tools for application and reduce being tied to specific network

Ring-tailed lemur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_lemur

• Madagascar 
• not endangered

Bluetooth Keyboard - MOTOROLA ATRIX™ 4G

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/accessories/specialty-items/sku5100303.html#fbid=xEaRF2Sm9AX

• $10

Open source tool for test engineers

http://opensource.com/education/13/4/obsidian

• Obsidian
• JUnit
• Netbeans
• comprehensive 
• easy to maintain
• college of Charleston
• Senior project

Obsidian

http://www.obsidiantest.org/

Samsung Is Spanking Apple in Earnings, Sales

• Apple 
• first profit decline in a decade
• Samsung
• net profit grew by 42%
• almost two times more smartphones
• grew 9 times faster

Google outlaws Android app updates that don't come from its Play store

http://www.zdnet.com/google-outlaws-android-app-updates-that-dont-come-from-its-play-store-7000014574/?s_cid=e550&ttag=e550

Samsung Galaxy S4 teardown: Qualcomm is a big winner

http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-teardown-qualcomm-is-a-big-winner-7000014603/?s_cid=e550&ttag=e550

• user replaceable battery
• 9.88 Wh
• 2,600 mAh
• 3.8 V
• 13 mp camera
• 1080p HD videos at 30 frames per second
• Snapdragon 1.9 GHz quad-core CPU
• glass fused to display and frame
• 8 of 10 repair-ability score

Quantify the impact of Agile app development

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/ios-app-builder/quantify-the-impact-of-agile-app-development/639?tag=nl.e550&s_cid=e550&ttag=e550

• desired outcomes not what's easy to measure
• balanced measurement regime or none at all

BoxCryptor vs. DropSmack: The battle to secure Dropbox

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/boxcryptor-vs-dropsmack-the-battle-to-secure-dropbox/9424?tag=nl.e550&s_cid=e550&ttag=e550

DropSmack: Using Dropbox to steal files and deliver malware

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/dropsmack-using-dropbox-to-steal-files-and-deliver-malware/9332

Citizenship and U.S. Immigration

Polly J. Price

https://www.coursera.org/course/immigration?from_restricted_preview=1&cid=970224&r=https%3A%2F%2Fclass.coursera.org%2Fimmigration-001%2Fauth%2Fauth_redirector%3Ftype%3Dlogin%26subtype%3Dnormal%26visiting%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fclass.coursera.org%252Fimmigration-001%252Fclass%252Findex

Android's two killer innovations since the iPhone 5 launch

http://www.zdnet.com/androids-two-killer-innovations-since-the-iphone-5-launch-7000014510/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

• Google Now
• SwiftKey

Asus PadFone 2 review

http://www.zdnet.com/asus-padfone-2-review-7000014571/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

Natural Language Processing

https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp?from_restricted_preview=1&cid=970276&r=https%3A%2F%2Fclass.coursera.org%2Fnlangp-001%2Fauth%2Fauth_redirector%3Ftype%3Dlogin%26subtype%3Dnormal%26visiting%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fclass.coursera.org%252Fnlangp-001%252Fclass%252Findex

Natural Language Toolkit

http://nltk.org/

Natural Language Processing with Python

Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516499.do?green=FB4442F7-DEE2-529B-9974-AD2B1FBAD1E4&intcmp=af-mybuy-9780596516499.IP

Natural Language Processing

https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp?from_restricted_preview=1&cid=970276&r=https%3A%2F%2Fclass.coursera.org%2Fnlangp-001%2Fauth%2Fauth_redirector%3Ftype%3Dlogin%26subtype%3Dnormal%26visiting%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fclass.coursera.org%252Fnlangp-001%252Fclass%252Findex

Tech Review: Friday, August 25, 2012

Machine Learning

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

• Instructor Andrew Ng, Standord AI Lab director

Tech Review: AI Study Notes: Monday, July 30, 2012

Artificial Intelligence:  A Modern Approach:  Third Edition

Stuart J. Russell

Peter Norvig

2010

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

Introduction

• Homo sapiens - man the wise
• intelligence
• AI tries to build intelligent entities.

Without know what intelligence is how can one know if they are building and intelligent system?

• thought processes, reasoning
• Thinking Humanly
• Cognitive modeling approach
• Psychology  
• Thinking Rationally
• laws of thought 
• logic
• behavior
• Acting Humanly
• fidelity to human performance
• Turing Test
• natural language processing
• knowledge representation
• automated reasoning
• new conclusions
• machine learning
• new patterns
• computer vision
• robotics
• Acting Rationally
• ideal performance or rationality
• agent
• comes from the Latin agere, todo
• limited rationality

Tech Review AI: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Cities using AI for pre-crime monitoring of surveillance videos

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/06/19/ai-video-surveillance-analysis.aspx?s=gcndaily_200612

Tech Review AI: Tuesday, June 12, 2012

https://class.coursera.org/nlp/lecture/preview

• Have listen to the course introduction
• listening to the Basic Text Processing -> Regular Expressions
• Regular expressions
• a formal language for specifying text strings
• regular expression disjuctions
• letters inside square brackets []
• pipe disjunction
• a|b|c is the same as [abc]
• ranges [A-Z]
• negations [^A-Z]
• ?
• previous character is optional
• .
• one charater
• ^
• begining of line
• $ 
• end of line
• \.
• use backslach to find special characters
• Kleene operators
• Stephen C Kleene
• * is 0 or more
• + is 1 or more
• non-alphabetics 
• regexpal.com
• Type1 error false positive
• increasing accuracy or precision (minimizing false positives)
• Type2 error false negatives
• increasing coverage or recall (minimizing false negatives)
• Type1 and 2 conflict, antagonistic 
• regular expressions play a surprisingly large role in NLP.
• regular expression used as features in classifiers for the hard NLP tasks
• Basic Text Processing -> Regular expression in practical NLP
• Christopher Manning
• Stanford English Tokenizer
• a deterministic
• Java Flexer 
• {2,4}
• length between 2 to 4

Tech Review AI: Friday, May 4, 2012

Repast Configuration XML Not Loading

http://old.nabble.com/Cannot-construct-repast.simphony.engine.schedule.ScheduleParameters-as-it-does-not-have-a-no-args-constructor-td32847311.html

• The problems is in using Java 7.  Had to revert back to Java 6.
• Repast Windows install comes with Java 1.6_22

Problems with JOGL in Repast

Eclipse jogl.gar

• http://timelessname.com/jogl/lesson01/

where do I find the jogl binaries

• http://schabby.de/jogl-download/
• http://jogamp.org/deployment/autobuilds/master/

where do I find the jogl.jar file

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6194824/where-do-i-get-the-jogl-jar
• http://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Downloading_and_installing_JOGL
• https://jogamp.org/chuck/job/jogl/476/

Economic Issues

Markets Equilibrium Price

• http://tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/as-markets-equilibrium-price.html

Principles of Economics

• http://www.slembeck.ch/principles.html

Repast and Override annotation Preventing Compilation

• http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.google.gwt/42774

Tech Review AI: Saturday, May 5, 2012

Simulation Software

http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Simulation_Software

• PowerSim Studio
• We have 4 or 5 licences at work
• Not flexible 
• If it was open source, Ethan would add modules to get the functionality we need.
• STELLA
• flight simulator?
• mentioned by Ethan

Open GL Issues in Installing Repast

• http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-889032-view-next.html?sid=24c27140a1ba8df9c9fb4aa9c51a440e
• http://www.cs32s11.vxcv.com/discussion/156/noclassdeffounderror-javaxmediaopenglgleventlistener/p1
• this is the error I get with it is not installed properly for Repast

Writing fake online reviews? New Google algorithm will catch you out

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/writing-fake-online-reviews-new-google-algorithm-will-catch-you-out/4776?tag=nl.e539

Erica says some interesting work is being done on campus.