I am still alive

After a lot of hard work to build the communication layer between Rubyk and Mimas, I have finally managed to display a basic “patch” view with objects and links.

Just an afternoon video representing my current feelings related to online presence… watch video

A good joke from xkcd

Une blague pour se moquer d’ Hadopi. Pour comprendre l’humour particulier de ce message, quelques nuits blanches passées à administrer des serveurs sous linux est un plus: le blog de ®om

If you have never heard of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it’s time you get out of your hole and start to worry about your civil rights, especially those related to information access. Thanks to the Pirate Party movements, things are moving ! read on or join the movement.

A crazy geek ported “box-2d” (a rigid body simulation engine) to Javascript and the new HTML5 <canvas> tag.

Demos here

Testing threads is fun: seeing how each one gets execution time in turn and which ones are greedy or starving makes them look like animals competing for food.

“AGREED
A WOMAN
FOUR NIGHTS
A WEEK” Colossus

A machine learning human nature !

Here is a very nice and funny microtonal piece by Aaron Krister Johnson:

This music is a nice reminder that punk attitude is not dead and can be found everywhere. Disrespect to the tonal system !

You can read the original post on Csounds.com.

From L-systems based sound synthesis to chaos theory…

I created a weblog for some friends going to India with their bicycles. There is also a view on google maps.

Swiss voters suck ! Being swiss is horrible today…

If you are like me and think wikipedia is a great project and you prefer making a donation then see it filled with ads, it’s easy to help...

I received my new book on applied statistics, but some parts are a little too much for my small brain so I searched internet for some introductory material…

I’m so bad at counting that I hated combinations and discrete statistics. But if you don’t have to count balls, statistics can become really exciting. I dislike balls, cards and other chance games as much as I love analog perception problems. Here are some books that keep me inspired…

I found a course on machine learning and the basic maths you need to know from Mikaela Keller who works at the IDIAP (these people work in Martigny, just next door, I want to meet them when rubyk becomes a usable toy !).

Some people have great ideas when it comes to the H1n1 flue pandemic….

Ever wanted to understand what exactly these DJ guys with turntables are doing ?
Follow the link: neurosonicsaudiomedical.com/—> select “THE FILM”

My favorite (bedside) book…

Il y a des projets de recherche vraiment très rigolos parfois. Comprendre la thermodynamique en utilisant des simulations avec les formes de Tetris, par exemple.