I’ll start this by saying I know this is a dumb idea.
I was looking up fictitious characters on Twitter and found Mia from Californication. That and the Sterling Cooper [Mad Men] Crew. Anyway, I suggested to my buddy Ari that we should create fake twitters for West Wing Characters (LemonLyman!) But alas, too much conversation [...]
I found this in my collection of old random files. Fortunately this one was called normalize.php, rather than the numerous asdf7.php or so files I have. Anyway, at the time I had a huge database that was one big table and every field needed to be normalized into its own table. This [...]
Keep Reading » 0As you may have noticed, I’ve been aggregating a lot of personal data, both to mine for my own interests, and to give you, my faithful readers/ friends/ internet stalkers, a comprehensive way to keep track of me. Notably recent has been My Twitter Feed, which I’ve been updating fairly often. While there [...]
Keep Reading » 2I promise, in remembering how much I don’t like optimization problems, I was playing around with the Facebook Grid Puzzle. Now I’m done looking at the Facebook problems, but in case anybody else is interested in playing around, here is some Ruby code I wrote that models the problem exactly:
Also, as an aside, [...]