The graffiti research lab strikes again! And gets me thinking about I/O. Their project is essentially taking a camera and watching the screen so that they can react to changes. This idea of feedback is pretty powerful. Computers already have both microphones and speakers, but they need cameras to go with their monitors and projectors [...]
Archives for February 2007
Solving Cryptarithms
SEND + MORE = MONEY MOSCOW = RED ** 2 ONE + TWO + TWO + THREE + THREE = ELEVEN COUPLE + COUPLE = QUARTET Each of these can be turned into a valid arithmetic expression by figuring out a mapping from the letter of the words to the digits 0-9. Remember that 0 [...]
autolink
I made a WordPress plugin! Coding in PHP is like taking all the string munging power of C with all the speed of Python and the elegance of shell. Nevertheless, I wrote a plugin that, whenever the title of an already-written post appears, will replace it with a link to that post. It gives this [...]
