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Well, look what happened to Twitter. It’s a good time to re-evaluate my online presence.

Re: my previous post, there were some questions about the eigenvectors I had created, and what had happened with them when I tried to reconstruc the images.

I’ll attempt to illustrate that here.

I’m taking Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera. At the same time, I’ve been thinking a lot about digital art and creative coding. I decided to try to combine the two.

This is the result.

And now the third installment in the series I have been writing for Sapient Global Markets and posted on Slashdot.

Slashdot picked up the second installment of my series of HTML5 blog posts I have written for Sapient Global Markets:

I recently wrote a blog post for Sapient Global Markets on HTML5 for the general business audience. It was picked up by Slashdot today:

Today is my last day at Genuine Interactive.

Don’t bury the lede, right?

Genuine Interactive recently built a new site for the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP). We tried some new libraries and architecture for the first time, so let’s take a look.

I just finished reading Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. Brandon Keepers recommended this book in his talk “The Plight of Pinocchio: JavaScript’s quest to become a real language” at BackboneConf in June. It’s a pretty good start for thinking about Test Driven Development and application design.

The first well-architected JavaScript application I worked on used what is commonly called the Revealing Module Pattern. I’ve used this pattern on projects ranging from 100 to 100,000 lines of code. I think I’ve found its breaking points, but also its sweet spots.