I received an email a week or so back asking about good locations to find plants in Houston. Here are where almost all of my plants have come from: Fountains and Ponds and Supplies ( * worth the trip, amazing stuff here ) Nelson Water Gardens Unusual P…
NASA has begun to open source some code if you are looking to dig into a cool project you might start there: Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand …
Processing huge amounts of data is going to be the next big thing. One of the open source tools for doing so is Apache’s hadoop: What Is Apache Hadoop? The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distribu…
Can’t do much with machine learning and artificial intelligence with out data so I started to put together a list of free online sources of data: The Official WhitePages Blekko National Weather Service Infochimps OpenStreetMap Yahoo! Finance Info…
Human Computer Interfaces Game Theory Probabilistic Graphical Models Computer Science 101 Software as a Service Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Cryptography Design and Analysis of Algorithms I and Lean Launchpad Technology Entrepreneurship…
Octave (download) Install Octave per directions. To start Octave from a command line create the following file and place it with permissions 755 in /user/local/bin file name: Octave #!/bin/bash open /Applications/Octave.app Next edit /Applications/Octa…
Stanford is offering free online classes in Machine Learning and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence I’ve taken their iPhone programming class and it was fantastic. I’m going to take the AI class to brush up on things and the Machine Le…
Now that summer might be winding down it’s time to take stock of which plants survived almost 3 months of 100′F plus heat and no rain and strict watering restrictions. What can you do during an extreme summer of heat and drought for your pl…
This week I updated all three WordPress security plugins – install and uninstall functions were added, the user interface and code was cleaned up. I hope to make them smarter over the coming few months.
Tripwire
Download WordPress Tripwire Plugi…
The NYTimes is reporting that several tree deaths are being linked to the use of the new herbicide Imprelis. Imprelis uses pyrimidine carboxylic acid (trade name Aptexor ) A recently approved herbicide called Imprelis, widely used by landscapers becaus…
- Track all your workouts in one app along with your weight, body fat and BMI – Calculate your BMI, body fat, how many calories you are eating and how many you should be eating. – Tracking your weight motivates you to gain, lose or keep yourself in bounds – Tracking your workouts motivates you [...]
- Track all your workouts in one app along with your weight, body fat and BMI – Calculate your BMI, body fat, how many calories you are eating and how many you should be eating. – Tracking your weight motivates you to gain, lose or keep yourself in bounds – Tracking your workouts motivates you [...]