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Communicating our Science

For the Fulbright Science and Technology Award seminar that happened over the last weekend I made a poetic entry for the contest “Science for all”. Here is the Powerpoint with the Haiku – What is Reinforcement Learning: A poetic Approach Below is the explanation of the presentation. The presentation does not  in any way cover [...]

#NYTechMeetup – Nov 2 – 2011

November starts off with a bang. Sort of. It’s also Movember, so donate. This post will be short but full of gems you can click on. I got an opportunity to attend my first New York Tech Meetup (NYTM). I work on a side project (One of my 1001 side projects – http://www.vima.co.za/pages/projects.html) called UPOD (User Programming [...]

My chosen Tablet – TouchPad

It has been an interesting couple of weeks in the technology world. One of the interesting things that happened if you didn’t, by living on and island, catch it was the HP Fire-sale after killing of their phone and tablet hardware business. I was one of the lucky people to stumble onto the SlickDeals HP Touchpad thread. I [...]

MakerFaire NYC 2011

This will be a shortish post on MakerFaire NYC 2011. I attended MakerFaire 2010 in NYC so going again 1 year later, this time with my better half was going to be another experience. We also decided to drive to NYC from New Jersey after a couple of mishaps, but all was good. More on [...]

On iPad Newspapers

This was supposed to be a long post on a couple of things but decided to make it easier for me and whoever will be reading. Now having gained access to the mythical iPad I got to going and checking out some ways to consume media and the internet (mostly) on it. What has been [...]