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Recognizing hand drawn numbers with Peckis
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Recognizing hand drawn numbers with Peckis

My tiny experiment playing with MNIST dataset of handwritten digits. End result can be viewed live at https://seimys.com/peckis/. It guesses numbers pretty terribly, because my focus was more on how

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Nov 09, 2019
Software settings: How much is too much
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Software settings: How much is too much

TL;DR You should allow client to configure every direct output to him. At Oxipit a simple email notification feature produced 6 essential email settings and 7 extra settings regarding email content and

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Oct 20, 2019
Learn to think by writing

Learn to think by writing

One quote that buzzed my ear recently is by Jordan B Peterson where he said that the best way to learn to think is to learn to write. I remembered this dead blog,

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Sep 02, 2019
Guess right case of path in Linux

Guess right case of path in Linux

In Linux your paths are case sensitive, if you have windows users who deal with case insensitive paths and want to communicate with them and handle their file requests you need to be

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Jun 12, 2014

Deadly combination: Karma + RequireJS + Jasmine + Ace

This caused some troubles for me, so I am sharing it -- to save someone else's precious time. Of course, solving problems is always rewarding in experience :) Scenario I want to write a

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Apr 03, 2014

People and innovations

Nice quote by Henry Ford about how people see innovations: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. So don't listen to what words are being used,

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Mar 25, 2014

Advanced LaTeX

Recently I had to create a list of things one should know to better understand authors who are using LaTeX to write their article. Yes, LaTeX is not just commands, it is a

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Aug 02, 2013

Splitting at whitespaces with google-diff-match-patch

This simple Python program example produces nice human readable word differences splitting at whitespaces, be it space, tab, or newline: from diff_match_patch import diff_match_patch dmp = diff_match_patch() c1

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Apr 18, 2013
Old topic: Environment vs Genes

Old topic: Environment vs Genes

Recent article in Delfi.lt provided some interesting ideas and numbers. There is one parameter, let's call it P, which shows how much of particular trait is influenced by environment, and how much

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Feb 22, 2012

Too much learning

I am going to regret this, but I signed up for two additional classes by (ex) Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun: CS 373: PROGRAMMING A ROBOTIC CAR CS 101: BUILDING A SEARCH ENGINE They

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Jan 25, 2012

Learning continues

After finishing AI and ML classes, it's time to look ahead and sign up for the new ones. The whole list of free lectures by professors of Stanford/Berkely/University of Michigan can

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Jan 10, 2012

Converting node to string with XSLT

If you simply write: <xsl:value-of select="//some-element"/> you get just a string of it's internal text elements, no node names. It's naked. If you write: <xsl:copy-of

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 16, 2011

Project Euler

I tried to be an active mathematical problems' solver at Project Euler. I used Python for that, in order to kill two birds with one stone: solve math, learn programming language. Of course,

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 06, 2011

Managing DNS records of seimys.com

My hosting service provider Interneto vizija (who also owns serveriai.lt and dedikuoti.lt) just recently enabled me to directly edit DNS records of my domain seimys.com. It was a trial and

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 06, 2011

My studies at Stanford University

Today I signed up for free online lectures in Stanford University: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - http://www.ai-class.com/ Machine Learning - http://ml-class.org/ I will definitely try to finish these,

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Sep 22, 2011

Visual diff using python

DMP is a library written in multiple languages and is used to compare two texts: Diff Match and Patch project homepage. Download this freely available and fast Python code, copy it inside the

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Jul 16, 2011

The equation of Logicomorality

I received an interesting comment from Marius: Well, so far it looks like there is less and less "morality" and more and more "logico". So far it is clear,

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Jun 08, 2009

Logicomorality. Discussion #2

Although my article about Logicomorality is quite old, some of you still find it interesting. I really liked thoughtful comments made by "a friend", so I will continue my discussion. This

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 07, 2007

Logicomorality. Discussion

I was really flattered to get some feedback on my last text about morality from Mindaugas G. His arguments were indeed insightful, so I decided to discuss them here to clarify some of

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
May 09, 2007

Tractatus Logicomoralitas

The world we live in is filled with plenty of ideologies about moral principles - what is good and what is considered to be bad. The purpose of this text is an attempt

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
May 05, 2007

Duality of Body and Consciousness

Mindaugas braught this topic to light and described this one new field of Science - Philosophy of Mind. This field is a sort of combination of philosophy and neurobiology. I do not want

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Apr 11, 2007

About Anti-religious Type

Some of you, who are against any type of faith try to argue about the impact of religion. I think, that to say, that "religion is nothing and it has no effect

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 27, 2006

Human is a sum of environment, or not?

This topic always sparks a lot of discussions. It is one question that is really important to both - religious or scientific. We can reformulate it as follows: how much is personality of

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 26, 2006

The Miracles of Today and Past

Today I had some discussions about miracles and how "real" they are. The standard scheme for a miracle is this: "The observers (scientists/doctors/people/etc.) said that it was

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Dec 26, 2006

Future and Expectations

This blog is by no means a page to supply knowledge on specific field. In the future, you might find here topics ranging from The Bible to Quantum Mechanics. Of course, these are

  • Matas Seimys
    Matas Seimys
Nov 21, 2006
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