Leapsa "intelectuala"

Am primit-o de la JO şi chiar mi se pare cea mai interesantă leapşa de până acum. După o traducere liberă, instrucţiunile ar suna aşa:

1. Ia cartea care este cea mai aproape de tine.
2. Deschide-o la pagina 123.
3. Găseşte a 5-a propoziţie/frază.
4. Postează pe blog textul următoarelor 4 propoziţii/fraze să cu aceste instrucţiuni.
5. Nu îndrăzni să scotoceşti prin rafturi după cartea aceea foarte deosebită sau "intelectuală".
6. Dă mai leapşa departe la alţi 6 prieteni.

La mine, răspunsul e din Programming Collective Intelligence şi sună cam aşa:

You can now test the function in your Python session. Reload the module and rerun the sampletrain method, since creating a new instance of the class will wipe out its existing training:

» reload(docclass)
module 'docclass' from 'docclass.pyc'
» cl=docclass.classifier(docclass.getwords)
» docclass.sampletrain(cl)
» cl.weightedprob('money','good',cl.fprob)
0.25
» docclass.sampletrain(cl)
» cl.weightedprob('money','good',cl.fprob)
0.16666666666666666

As you can see, rerunning the sampletrain method makes the classifier even more confident of the various word probabilities as they get pulled further from their assumed probability.
The assumed probability of 0.5 was chosen simply because it is halfway between 0 and 1.

Mai departe, sunt curios ce vor raspunde:

• Ana-Maria
• Andi
• Simona
  
• Alex
• Anca
• şi iarăşi Anca.

Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview

When I first heard about it I just thought that it was only some sort of new YM 9.0 release, but I thought I'll still have something to see in an official presentation: at least how a the presentation was made! :P

Well, the Yahoo! team has released a preview of their Yahoo! Messenger for Vista which is actually built on WPF. Now I can really connect the dots and see why Petru was so into evangelizing WPF! This is another big leap from the UX point of view. This version is built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system, as Ryan Stewart confirms:

the new version just feels like a native Vista application and all that entails including richness, transparencies, and very powerful reflow features.

Since this is only a preview release, many features are intentionally left out, but the good news is that you can run both Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or 9.0 and Messenger for Vista on your PC depending on what you need.

Here is the list of included features, directly from the source:

• Entirely new interface that harnesses the power of WPF, the graphics subsystem in Windows Vista
• Organize your conversations into tabs, or drag and drop a tab out to create a new window
• Keep up with your favorite contacts by dragging them into the Windows Sidebar gadget
• Send enhanced emoticons that have some extra oomph
• Change the color of your IM windows with a built-in skin chooser. Go crazy with a different skin for every IM window!
• Adjust the display size of your contacts with a handy slider
• Arrange your contact list into multiple columns just by resizing your window
• Send instant messages to your Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger contacts
• Send files to friends as large as 2 GB
• Find contacts quickly with the contact search bar. Type in a few letters of the contact’s name or ID and they’ll come up in filtered results.
• As-you-type spell checker that’s smart enough to know that “LOL” is not something to correct
• A preferences menu you can access by right-clicking anywhere at the top of the main Messenger window

OK, many new and interesting features, but let's see it in action:

If this caught your interest, just go ahead and download Yahoo! Messenger for Vista!

MobTime Cell Phone Manager & patch

Majoritatea comentariilor pe care le-am primit pe blog legate de telefonul Huawei u120s se refereau la o versiune pentru MobTime Cell Phone Manager care sa conţină și un patch. Deși se găseşte relativ uşor pe eMule/torrents, pentru cei care nu aţi dat de el, îl găsiți aici.

Găsiţi acum mai ieftin şi carduri MicroSD sau cablu de date pentru telefonul Huawei.

XWiki Office Iasi - follow-up

Recently I was spreading the word about the opening of XWiki Office Iasi. It was a nice "party", with great people and some bottles of good wine (Grasa de Cotnari).

Thanks to Anca, we have little souvenirs from the event:

XWiki Office Iasi

Duminica, 21 octombrie 2007, are loc inaugurarea XWiki Office Iasi, situat pe Lascar Catargi, nr 37, etajul 2, apt 4 (Berthelot colt cu Catargi, cladirea noua de vis-a-vis de spitalul de urgenta).

Vino de la ora 18⁰⁰ sa sarbatorim impreuna!

The Cube: Vista way!

Since I'm quite new to Vista, I looked for the-cool-cube-effect only recently:

Yod'm 3D (Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D) allows you to have virtual desktops with a 3D cube effect for the transitions on both Windows XP and Windows Vista. It is pretty much like Beryl, on Linux, but featuring only the spinning cube.

How does it work ?

1. Download Yod'm 3D 1.4 (MediaFire mirror)
2. Decompress the file in a folder of your choice
3. Run the program
4. Push the keys Ctrl + Shift and change your desktop by displacing the cube with your mouse, or by using your left and right keys.

They say that the 3D effects of this kind require a rather efficient computer. I can say that it behave very well on my laptop and I did not find it to be CPU consuming.

Yod'm 3D 1.4 is the former version that was still free. The newer versions (not free anymore) are called DeskSpace.