Well, it's been a month since I last posted. That sure was unexpected! Time to get a collection of links in no particular order off my chest:
Make Google dance for you (no, srlsly)
13000 people cannot be wrong
The power of Flickr and Google Earth come together in one epic evolution (go go Photosynth, I choose you!)
How to ransom a wallet over the internet
Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens (Qwantz readers keep going)
Hello computer, how are you doing today? Oh good, a major scale - that means you're in top form! (non-nerds move on)
Guitar hero - on your chest
Everything in the universe about Zoggs
NOW, on with reality:
Today, I was thinking about programming and permutations. We haven't covered permutations in Geometry, yet, but I was idly toying with flimsy's Ziggurat idea. Instead of doing Geometry Proof review, I worked out a pseudo code algorithm to generate all the possible combinations of 1-15 letter words composed of a-z. So, you shove all these words (I'm too scared to work out what the total number would be) into a database, then you use them to create all possible permutations of, say, 20 word sentences (this is a pretty ridiculous number, I know). Finally, with this gargantuan database in hand, you create a hotornot/Google Image Labelling-like web app. Interested visitors are shown a pair of sentences, and asked to vote on which is more powerful. Far more often than not, they're both rubbish, but the user still has to choose one. Anyways, these would be marked as unusable, and they would not be voted on again until the first "round" was finished. You can read the rest of the Ziggurat link to find out how it all ends, but I'm pretty intrigrued by the idea of distributed permutations and then having people sort out the rubbish. I'd love to try to get a distributed 50x50 pixel image permutation generator going, but it would require a lot of concentration, something which I don't feel inclined to give the idea.
Make Google dance for you (no, srlsly)
13000 people cannot be wrong
The power of Flickr and Google Earth come together in one epic evolution (go go Photosynth, I choose you!)
How to ransom a wallet over the internet
Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens (Qwantz readers keep going)
Hello computer, how are you doing today? Oh good, a major scale - that means you're in top form! (non-nerds move on)
Guitar hero - on your chest
Everything in the universe about Zoggs
NOW, on with reality:
Today, I was thinking about programming and permutations. We haven't covered permutations in Geometry, yet, but I was idly toying with flimsy's Ziggurat idea. Instead of doing Geometry Proof review, I worked out a pseudo code algorithm to generate all the possible combinations of 1-15 letter words composed of a-z. So, you shove all these words (I'm too scared to work out what the total number would be) into a database, then you use them to create all possible permutations of, say, 20 word sentences (this is a pretty ridiculous number, I know). Finally, with this gargantuan database in hand, you create a hotornot/Google Image Labelling-like web app. Interested visitors are shown a pair of sentences, and asked to vote on which is more powerful. Far more often than not, they're both rubbish, but the user still has to choose one. Anyways, these would be marked as unusable, and they would not be voted on again until the first "round" was finished. You can read the rest of the Ziggurat link to find out how it all ends, but I'm pretty intrigrued by the idea of distributed permutations and then having people sort out the rubbish. I'd love to try to get a distributed 50x50 pixel image permutation generator going, but it would require a lot of concentration, something which I don't feel inclined to give the idea.