I like FreeBasic and will continue to use it. I had hoped it would become an easy to use object orientated language that would be ported to forthcoming intel Larrabee chip( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU) ). People get married, have kids and take on many duties and responsibilities in li...

I would never use the terms C++ and stability in the same breath. C was developed to make programming 8-bit microprocessors easier. C++ was for 16 bit microprocessors and there it should have stopped. Up to you if you want to spend years learning C++. It is unlikely that you will be able to do anyth...

I've been trying out the Gray code algorithm for a few days now. Hey, it's really amazing. Nearly all genetic algorithms are convergent in nature. Once they start converging that's it, there is no going back and that makes them less than suitable where you want open-ended evolution or co-evolution. ...

I learned about this simple and interesting algorithm from this paper: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jer/papers/ctsgray.pdf function continuousGray(x as double,precision as double=20) as double dim as double y if rnd>.5 then y=x+exp(-precision*rnd) if y>1.0 then y-=2.0 else y=x-exp(-precision*rnd) if y<...

I think one of the ideas is that you get the neural net to learn relatively small sized random projections of the (sparse) training data, rather than the full training data itself. Later when you give the neural net some input it will recall a random projection that could be decoded into the much la...

I just found an American Scientist article on the subject:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues ... -best-bits

Compressive Sensing is a pretty dramatic new development in Digital Signal Processing that is having a big impact even beyond that field. It's very useful for neural nets and things like that. Anyway you can think of it as a way of compressing readings from a sensor with a very low computational bur...

Hey I just invented a cool new algorithm to do data compression / extrapolation and pattern generation. This is hot off the presses so I don't really know what it can do yet, but anyway it's yours to try out already:

http://code.google.com/p/lemontree/downloads/list

I don't know why you get a blank screen. The internet is a hall of smoke and mirrors. The only thing that code is trying to do is create a self assembling tiling that will reproduce a little picture of a house stored in an array. Where it gets difficult is if the tiles represented electronic compone...

Anyway I am getting much better and faster results using the following initialization for PolyHouse.bas size=initSA(3,4,4,20,20) InitEDAParams(10,100000,4,10,5) Each position on the board receives an X signal from the left and a Y signal from the top. These signals are then concatenated into a combi...

I have just started trying out code related to computational self assembly. It seems like a very powerful idea, I don't know why it has been so little researched. The general idea is that you have a bunch of tiles that have different affinities for each other and you let them stick together on a boa...

Do I ever stop? Can I ever be stopped? No and yeh, sure. The following optimizer code is almost a drop in replacement for the optimizers in the FBMath library. It is rather slow because it uses both global and local optimization. It should be able to solve some difficult problems. Oh yeh, I am pasti...

Please do fix my mistakes.
I have just put some more code in the usual place:
http://code.google.com/p/lemontree/downloads/list
A good few things this time. Walsh Hadamard transform wavelet compression and some tomfoolery with neural nets.

I have tried the D programming language. It is good, my problem with it is that it is a moving target. I don't mind if keywords and templates and other things are added to a language. What gets me are the fundamental changes to the meanings of already defined keywords. I think Walter Bright is an in...

"A Bloom filter is a simple space-efficient randomized data structure for representing a set in order to support membership queries. Bloom filters allow false positives but the space savings often outweigh this drawback when the probability of an error is controlled. Bloom filters have been use...