software 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
settings 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
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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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,
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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