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Understanding and Applying Artificial Neural Networks : Engineering Perspective
Engineering, Programming, Technologies ·Lasts week (15th November to 19th November), NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) had organized a course on Artificial Neural Networks at Government College Of Engineering – Farmagudi, Goa. I was appointed as course faculty for this event.
Personally, I do not believe in concept of teaching. Humans are smart and intelligent animals and...
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Just Released: Maya Programming Language
Programming, Technologies ·Around one year ago, I had started experimenting with concepts of creating programming languages. I first started with building few DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) using Ruby and Boo. It was quite interesting to work on development of DSLs. While doing this, I learnt a lot about how the programming languages are developed.
Eventually, I thought of writing my own programming...
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Fun: Adsense and Deepika Padukone
Funny ·Yesterday I was reading an article on “How to Uninstall Symantec AntiVirus”. The article was from EzineArticles. While reading it, I suddenly noticed that the AdSense block is showing a complete unrelated ad on the page. Take a look at the screen-shot below.
Error in ruby on rails documentation for ActionController::UrlWriter
My Thoughts, Programming, Technologies ·In Ruby on rails, methods that generate urls from named routes are not globally accessible. For example, you can’t access them from console (script/console). If you want to use these methods from such places, then the rails documentation for ActionController::UrlWriter suggests two ways of doing it. According to this documentation, you can:
- Include ActionController::UrlWriter in your class ...
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RSpec Matchers: Be careful while testing boolean values
Programming, Technologies, Tips ·While testing methods that return boolean values in ruby (the ones that end in ‘?’), try to avoid following matchers:
method_returning_true?.should be_trueor
method_returning_false?.should be_falseThis is because, ‘be_true’ and ‘be_false’ matchers considers ‘nil’ to be false and anything other than ‘nil’ to be true. When...
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Simplicity is the best policy
Creativity, My Thoughts, Technologies ·Few days ago I came across a story here. In this story, an assembly line worker suggests a simple, low-cost but highly effective solution to the problem for which engineers had developed a complex and expensive solution. Why am I referring to this story today? Because, I notice lot of people having a misconception that you need to...
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Search Google Visually
My Thoughts, Tips ·Today I came across an online tool that allows you to see the screenshot of pages in the google search result. You can give it a try at “Veesual.com”
Simple equivalent of “With” statement in C#
Programming, Tips ·Consider the following class in C#
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Fixing SyntaxHighligher plugin in WordPress Blass2 theme
Tips ·Yesterday I installed and activated Blass2 theme for this blog. I liked this theme as it was very simple and free from any extra graphics. After installing the theme, I discovered that “SyntaxHighlighter Evolved” plugin which I use to display code segments, was not working. I searched for other themes which are similar to blass2 and can run...
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After file and photo sharing, it’s time for “code sharing”
My Thoughts, Technologies, Tips ·If we want to share a file or photos while chatting with our friends on internet using IM tools like GTalk, we use file sharing services available online. These services allow us to upload a file to their servers and give us a link which we can share with our friends. But what if you are a developer and want...