Funniest Electronics Quiz

December 15th, 2012

This was my Thanksgiving take home quiz for my electronics class. My professor sure has a sense of humor.

Quick Ruby Review

December 10th, 2012

Getting ready for a technical interview involving Ruby? Check out this simple program that summarizes a few key features of Ruby.

Install wine 1.4 on Debian Squeeze the easy way

December 6th, 2012

So you need to update your wine version on Debian Squeeze. You can go ahead and compile from sources, or you can follow these simple instructions. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list by adding the following: Mepis is a Linux distro based on the stable branch of Debian, but it comes with more updated binaries (wine included). Edit your /etc/apt/preferences file (or create it if it doesn’t exist): This will allow you to choose from which repository to install new packages. By default […]

Will it be possible for computers to one day understand language?

December 6th, 2012

Computers in the past 40 years have exponentially increased in power while their costs have steadily decreased. This access to low-cost powerful computers has given researchers all over the world the possibility to expand in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that aims at creating intelligent machines. The field of AI is divided in two groups, strong AI and weak AI. The former aims at creating artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence and […]