Computing on the cheap with Amazon EC2

We tend to host our own servers, because we like it, and because we can. (We also speak in the third person when there’s just one of us, but there’s no accounting for some people). Nothing fancy, mind… Read More

Unhappy Bits about Bitcoins

I wandered across bitcoin not too long ago, during some random web crawling, and downloaded it in May. I installed it, ran it, realized I was behind a firewall, killed it, uninstalled it and forgot about it for… Read More

Mosaics and More Algorithm Love

My mom (whose website I should update) recently celebrated her birthday. My mom is an avid shutterbug, and abuses the digital camera we got for her a handful of Christmases ago to the tune of 10,000 photos a… Read More

Hey, Happy Technologist got Published!

I’m rather excited about the fact that, after only six actual posts on the new blog, one got picked up for publication. The slightly altered version is available at Technology First, and you can get the full newspaper… Read More

Musings from a few weeks of data mining

Ok, I’m still no expert data miner by a large margin, but I’ve learned a LOT in just a few weeks of playing with the Heritage Health Prize data. The folks on the Kaggle/HHP Chat Board are pretty… Read More