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Sip-reviews of newish Board Games I tried for the first time in 2013
By Morten
Posted on January 31, 2014

Since the deadline for wishing people a Happy New Year here in France is not before 24h00 the 31st of January, I figured I would take the opportunity to try to jot down some musings on some of the new board games... [Read More]
Tags:
- twocents
- boardgaming
- bestof
- game
- 2013
Instaworries -- and a resulting mass unfollowing hack
By Morten
Posted on December 28, 2013

The other day I noticed/remembered that I had an instagram account. And, according to my sister, I was quite active on it. Apparently. I kept following new persons. That suprised me, so I logged on and investigated. “I” followed 974 (or so)... [Read More]
Tags:
- hack
- gist
- fix
- Ruby
- socialmedia
Add overall lesson timing to video listings on Coursera
By Morten
Posted on October 20, 2013

Marché de La Rochelle HDR Probably about two years ago - when taking Andrew Ng's excellent "Machine Learning" MOOC, Johannes sent me a piece of JavaScript that populated the video lists with overall time per lesson just by pasting it into the URL-thingy... [Read More]
Tags:
- JavaScript
- hack
- gist
- source code
- Coursera
Fix your rapid blinking Marantz SR-6004 using nothing but 3 fingers - and a thumb
By Morten
Posted on August 4, 2013

A couple of years ago my (most of the time excellent) Maranz SR6004 acted up. It did't want to turn itself on. Properly. Just stood there and blinked rapidly. Its little red light that is. At me. The solution was so simple that... [Read More]
Tags:
- howto
- Hardware
- fix
D3 Map Projections revisited
By Morten
Posted on March 13, 2013

One of my most popular posts on this blog is the one about my quick D3 map projections morphing hack. Today I discovered that Mike Bostock, the creator of D3 himself, has made a similar visualization now - only way nicer. Available here: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3711652 Enjoy! [Read More]
Tags:
- JavaScript
- D3
- maps
- visualization
10000 views! (Yes, that is decimal, not binary.)
By Morten
Posted on March 13, 2013

Next week this little blog experiment will turn 6 months, and yesterday it passed 10000 views (sans counting my own revisits - in theory), so I guess some of the things I put up here are useful to others as well (or... [Read More]
Tags:
- meta
Implementing k-means clustering in Ruby
By Morten
Posted on February 14, 2013

Inspired by the partitioning problem I set about to implement a well known algorithm, k-means clustering, from memory, for fun! ... and, for science... Interestingly, this is somehow the opposite of the partitioning problem. In the partitioning problem we tried to maximize... [Read More]
Tags:
- Programming
- hack
- algorithm
- stats
- Ruby
- visualization

Sip-reviews of newish Board Games I tried for the first time in 2013

Instaworries -- and a resulting mass unfollowing hack

Add overall lesson timing to video listings on Coursera

Fix your rapid blinking Marantz SR-6004 using nothing but 3 fingers - and a thumb

D3 Map Projections revisited

10000 views! (Yes, that is decimal, not binary.)

Implementing k-means clustering in Ruby