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# Magic 8-ball Jabber bot
# Stupid pet tricks for your computer
# @author Erik Hollembeak

# Put in the same directory as the script a file called
# credentials.yaml with the credentials for the Jabber account
# you'd like the bot to use with the following syntax:
#
# username: [email protected]
# password: yourpassword

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Tweet photo with #mongoatl to win!
Fur bus will shuttle back & forth to after-party, where there are 2 free drinks

Building an application with MongoDB

Will cover:

• Data modeling, queries, geospacial, updates, map-reduce
• Using location-based app as an example

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Notes for talk on Watson

Bill Murdock - IBM Research

Background

DeepBlue defeating Gary Kasparov at chess was ~10 years ago

• important achievement in a complex problem domain

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Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 20, 1982

Outline of talk: Metaphors, Magnetic Fields, Snobbery and Slogans 

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 

Humans like fantasy and sharing: 
Fantasy fulfills a need for a simpler, more controllable world. 

Sharing is important - we're all communication junkies. We have an incredible bandwidth 

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
garbageDetector.py

Created by Erik Hollembeak on 2009-09-28.
Copyright (c) 2009 Vocalocity. All rights reserved.
"""

import sys

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;(compile-file "euler.lisp")

(defun fib (n)
  (if (or (= n 0)
	  (= n 1))
      1
      (+ (fib (- n 1))
	 (fib (- n 2)))))

(defun square (number)

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(defun divisible-by (number list)
  "return true if divisible by an element in the list"
  (loop for i in list
       thereis (= (mod number i) 0)))

(defun prime-list-generator (current max-value prime-list)
  "business end of p10"
  (if (= current max-value)
      prime-list
      (if (divisible-by current prime-list)

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# Histogram filter for 2D discrete world
# author: Erik Hollembeak

colors = [['red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red'],
          ['red', 'red', 'green', 'red', 'red'],
          ['red', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red'],
          ['red', 'red', 'red', 'red', 'red']]

measurements = ['green', 'green', 'green', 'green', 'green']

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