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Learning Scheme: Euler Problem 3

Been a long time since I last posted; real life has a way of getting in the way. The past few months read like the back cover of A Series of Unfortunate Events: if you don't want to hear about a thwarted move, a house fire, 2 graduations, negotiations for a new job and a [...]
2010 07 13 Scheme Comments (0)

jQuery UI 1.8

Well, they released jQuery UI 1.8 two days ago, and now everything is broken. I understand why the changes were made, but it sure is inconvenient. Plugins and posts updated so far: timepickr widget tutorial extending widgets flexcal googlesearch and ajaxpopup textpopup and hebrewkeyboard And on top of that, chili stopped working with jQuery 1.4 [...]
2010 03 25 jQuery Comments (2)

A real pain scale

I usually don't blog about medical stuff here, but Allie Brosh's comments about the Wong-Baker pain scale are perfectly on-target. The Joint Commission accredits health care organizations and comes up with intrusive, well-intended but largely pointless standards that the rest of us have to uphold. A sort of "unfounded mandate." One of these is the [...]
2010 03 25 Medical Informatics Comments (0)

Learning Scheme, Euler problem 2

The second project Euler problem is: Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ... Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence [...]
2010 03 16 Scheme Comments (0)

Learning Scheme

OK, so my new mini project is to learn Scheme. It can't be too hard, right? I mean Javascript is just Lisp in C's clothing, and I'm good at Javascript. I've installed PLT-Scheme and I figure the best way to learn it is solving Project Euler problems until I get bored.
2010 03 14 Scheme Comments (0)

The Quicken, the Dead

I've been using Quicken for years, since Quicken 97 on Window then Quicken 5 on the Mac and then Quicken 2001 when I got my iMac. The problems is that Intuit doesn't upgrade Quicken, it replaces it each year with a version that has more frilly bells and whistles and less real utility (especially on [...]
2010 03 12 Uncategorized Comments (2)

Jewish History from a Unique Perspective

My children's Jewish history teacher, Rabbi Yonason Goldson has been teaching at Block Yeshiva High School for many years and presents Jewish history with a mix of traditional and scholarly sources, always from a Torah-true perspective and always looking at the broad sweep of history and the Jews' role in it. He has now published [...]
2010 02 19 Judaism Comments (0)

Engauge Digitizer Tutorial

A simple walkthrough to use the Engauge Digitizer to pull values off a "printed" graph There's a far more complete manual that comes with the download, but these are the steps I used to generate the data for the webservices graphs. It assumes you've got a black and white image of the graph, with continuous [...]
2010 01 14 Medical Informatics Comments (2)

Digitizing graphs

I wanted to add Down Syndrome growth charts to the bililite.com webservices, but as far as I can tell, the charts are available only as images in the AAP's guidelines (and the original paper; subscription only). The often-cited growthcharts.com has charts, and Greg Richards was generous enough to share his data with me. However, some [...]
2010 01 10 Medical Informatics Comments (0)

Parsing the HTTP Accept: header

I wanted the webservices to be as RESTful as possible, so they should use the Accept: header rather than file name extensions to determine the type.
2010 01 06 PHP Comments (0)