Imagine my delight when I heard that there would be a Poker Tournament at Dartmouth! I really used to enjoy playing poker back in the day, before it was cool. For a while, during my senior year at UCBoulder, my friend Matt and I were both writing software to study Texas Hold’em and [...]

Matt has republished some of our best iDrone posts:
Writing an accumulator generating function in Ruby (Mark Wilbur)
Thoughts on the Subset Sum Problem (Matt Ball)
On Google’s Evilness (John Pasden)
The Perfect Programming Language (Matt Ball)
We had some serious geekery going there while it lasted.

I’ve been interested in the Vancouver-based startup D-Wave for over a year now. They make quantum computers. And, unlike any other company in the world, they’ve actually made working ones. This week they’re demoing a pattern recognition test that’s very difficult for traditional computers– scanning pictures and quickly identifying which ones are [...]

What a painful day it was at work yesterday. On Thursday night, I got an email from Martin, saying that there was a bread-maker with my name on it at his place. Since he was leaving for Japan the next day, I headed over right away.
The apartment looked like some sort of disaster [...]

I’ve really neglected iDrone, recently. Well, we all have. John and I have been busy with work, and Matt has been busy designing standards for storage cryptography. In fact, Matt is now the acting chair of IEEE’s Security in Storage Workgroup (SISWG). Very cool. The newest member of our tech-blogging [...]

Something about the regular practice of writing articles for my blog has been very enjoyable to me since I started a few months ago. It helps me organize my thoughts. It helps keep my English writing skills from degrading as quickly as they otherwise would, spending years living in Asia. Of [...]

Last night, I went back to Taibei to play chess with my old co-workers. It’s kinda scary, really. They’ve all been playing regularly, Martin’s been reading books on strategy, and I fully expect to get left way behind in terms of ability shortly. Mike W. was there, though and the topic turned [...]

BattlePanda just hit me with blogging’s equivalent of a chain-letter. I hate this kind of thing, but it would seem rude not to accept, so I’ll do the sensible thing… go along with it and grumble. I’m not really much of a movie guy, though, and I don’t go on many vacations either. Grumble, grumble, [...]

Have you ever tried to write a program that outputs itself when you run it? While I was eating at Wahoo’s Fish Tacos with Mike and Matt a couple of weeks ago, Matt brought up the topic. Being the guy that he is, he whipped out a napkin and proceeded to write an [...]

Last night I finally had a chance to meet up with Thomas and Irene. They drove down from Louisville (near Boulder), picked me up and went to eat at Maggiano’s. Surprisingly, Matt and Nicole came all the way down from Boulder to eat with us, too. Thomas and I did most of the talking, but [...]