Neopets, Lambda Calculus and Decision Tree Pruning

“What has she been working on?” you might well ask. “All this raiding, all these long long long comments on everyone else’s blogs but precious little here?” Well. Aside from raiding with Eternal Chaos and occasionally visiting Nagafen, I have been trying to solve a puzzle on the children’s MMO/Community Site, Neopets. This place… is … Read more

Comment Spam

The Ancient Gaming Noob had an interesting post today about the spam comments he gets in his blog. I’ve often complimented him before on how his well-designed site has changed my life, caused me to burst into laughter unexpectedly and inspired me to become a better person — many of my heartfelt comments, he displayed … Read more

My Space

Cuppy of Cuppycake.org asked bloggers to post pictures of their gaming setups. Mine’s in a bit of a flux; my main gaming computer just died, and I have a laptop replacement. Here’s mine. The left rear screen is for Supernova, my recently deceased computer. In front of it is Darkstar, its replacement (after a star … Read more

Coexistence

The Hartford is sponsoring a traveling exhibit of billboard-sized artworks on the theme of Coexistence created by the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem. From the Hartford’s website: Coexistence is a giant public art exhibition, featuring approximately 45 billboard-sized images created by artists from around the world. It encourages people to think about human relationships … Read more

90% crud, 10% worth dying for

This is Bon Jovi week, and all the idols had to take a Bon Jovi song, and mentored by Jon himself, embarass themselves in front of thirty million people… I love this show so much and feel like kicking myself for not watching it all those years when, well, I wasn’t watching any television and … Read more