ACM Chapter CU

02/12/2012

Want to move to linux ?
here's something to get you started

Paul Reiber's answer: First, go get yourself a cup of coffee if needed, because... this is gonna be kind of long, and it's not an easy read. Feel free to ask questions. So, you're moving to linux. Awesome! There's a version of netflix for ubuntu now, and flash is working pretty darn well (in ...

15/08/2012

Answer (1 of 3): The reason that multi-word passwords are secure does not rely on “security by obscurity”; it relies on the vast number of combinations of multiple words. If you pick four words randomly from a vocabulary of 2000 words, as in the xkcd comic, there are 2000^4 \approx 2^{44} possib...

31/07/2012

Neat

Coded by . Inspired by Sol's TextFX library. Built with 's Google Street View Panorama library, and three.js.

23/07/2012

Shared with us by our previous member, now graduate, Khaled Sami :-)

Answer (1 of 15): Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "data science" (see What is data science? ). See also: Vardi, Science has only two legs: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1810892&type=html&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=102012981&CFTOKEN=18184364 Here are some resources I've colle...

15/07/2012

This was bugging me over the weekend: What is a good way to solve those Where's Waldo? ['Wally' outside of North America] puzzles, using Mathematica (image-processing and other functionality)?

08/07/2012

Is it not a beautiful idea ?!

Over a decade ago we introduced BitTorrent technology and BitTorrent clients. Today, we are proud to announce the release of BitTorrent Torque.

28/06/2012

Finally, events on google+

For all the moments that matter - before, during and after

27/06/2012

The beta of Valve's source film-maker is out

27/06/2012

"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."

24/06/2012

Did you hear of it before ?

In Internet culture, the 1% rule or the 90–9–1 principle (sometimes also presented as 89:10:1 ratio)[1] reflects a hypothesis that more people will lurk in a virtual community than will participate. This term is often used to refer to participation inequality in the context of the Internet.

21/06/2012

Any VIM users ?

A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim. Contribute to vim-clutch development by creating an account on GitHub.

21/06/2012

The other day a student and I were trying to understand a subtle part of the C standard. Often, the easiest way to clarify this kind of issue is to recognize that compiler writers have already grappled with it — so just write some code and see what various compilers do with it. I wrote this function...