by John | Nov 3, 2018 | Politics
What is open government? In the most basic sense, it’s the notion that the people have the right to access the documents and proceedings of government. The idea that the public has a right to scrutinize and participate in government dates at least to the...
by John | Nov 1, 2018 | Computers and Internet, Programming
Socket programming got you down? Is this stuff just a little too difficult to figure out from the man pages? You want to do cool Internet programming, but you don’t have time to wade through a gob of structs trying to figure out if you have to call bind() before...
by John | Nov 1, 2018 | Education & Learning, music
The ultimate guide to composing your own piano piece. I know, it does sound a little daunting. There are so many details to think about: What’s it going to sound like? Will it be upbeat? Romantic? Scary? What key is it going to be in? What about...
by John | Nov 1, 2018 | Programming
Welcome to Clever Algorithms! This is a handbook of recipes for computational problem solving techniques from the fields of Computational Intelligence, Biologically Inspired Computation, and Metaheuristics. Clever Algorithms are interesting, practical, and fun to...