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Yesterday I got my hands on my very first Lincoln (five dollars) bill, they seem much more older and used than Euro banknotes. As I had already made a Euro note serial number validation algorithm in PHP I thought: “why don’t I do the same for dollar bills?”.
Ok it’s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I’ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.
Continue reading ‘Managing your online business with Google’
I’ve scanned this nice article about Jimbo Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) I read on ExecutiveDigest today (sorry, only Portuguese).
Peter Norvig, the director of search quality at Google wrote a program to generate the World’s Longest Palindrome that has about 17,259 words.
Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.
Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.
I was searching for software that could display a visual representation of database relationships and I came across these two gems on Open Source Windows.
Dr. Luis van Ahn presented in his fantastic Google Tech Talk Video called Human Computation (he speaks very fast sometimes in this video).
Today, I was googling for SEO and I found a couple of new services from Google like Google Gears (the counter back for Adobe Apollo?) and Google Maps Street View, here is a video:
I’ve been reading about Python in my free time and I’m amazed how cool it is.
It features dynamic variable instantiation (this means you don’t have to do the boring job of instantiating all variables to a certain type, like in C or Java), it’s pretty fast (at least two times faster than PHP, for example) and, the Python code syntax is also very pleasant to look at, due to its indentation rule: every loop, condition or any other structure needs to be indented - there is no curly braces or begins/ends, here is an example:
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