Conway’s Game of Life is one of the most popular examples of cellular automaton. However, did you know that Stephan Rafler proposed a version of Game of Life in 2011 which works over a contious domain, called SmoothLife?
Cool, isn’t it? The basic idea is that the grid …
Our local Belgian media was just reporting on a study showing that air pollution has a negative impact on the cognitive abilities of children (link in Dutch).
With that in mind, I was reminded of the World Air Quality Index team, which keeps track of pollution values across the world …
If you’ve been trying to send e-mails from a program using your Gmail account, you’ll probably have encountered the following error message:
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. Error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
535 5.7.1 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
535 5.7 …I enjoy firing up Audiosurf 2 from time to time to have some rythmic musical fun. One of the things that has been bothering me, however, is the fact that Audiosurf 2 only integrates with Soundcloud for its music streaming. You can use local files, but since I stream all …
This blog post is an update for this one. I was recently contacted regarding the original post no longer working. Indeed, the scholar.py version used there is being blocked by Google Scholar.
Looking at the scholar.py GitHub page, we do find an updated version from about 8 months …
Imagine you have an Apache server set up with a virtualhost configuration listening to some domain, e.g.
my.domain:8080
You have a Flask app running at:
localhost:5000
You want to add a mod_proxy directive so that:
http://my.domain:8080/app_location/ ---> http://localhost:5000
Most resources will …
Again that time of the year where Windows’s being reinstalled, so once again I’m jotting down a list of apps I normally install right away, slightly updated versus last year.
(This list last updated in May 2016.)
I’ve been looking at various Java decompilers recently for a project I’ve been working on in spare time.
Java code obfuscation is something I have an interest in for no particular reason, mostly because you see a variety of cool approaches popping up in the wild to prevent …
Ever ran across a PDF export of a Powerpoint which looks like this?
Turns out it is not so easy to convert this to printable design (at least not without having access to the original presentation file, that is). Adobe Reader already allows to do the following:
Ctrl+K …