Byron's Blog
Monday, November 21, 2011

InnoCentive

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I found a cool website called InnoCentive . They currently host 116 active competitions - some of them with million dollar prizes. Most of t...

Facebook Removes RSS Importing

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When I logged into Facebook today I was greeted with this message: That's right, Facebook is removing the ability to import RSS fee...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

e-sports

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I spent the day watching the MLG Starcraft 2 championship. This is by far the most entertaining sport I have watched. I bet it would be fun...
Monday, November 07, 2011

rpscontest.com is down!

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A while ago I created the site rpscontest.com - a rock-paper-scissors programming competition hosted by Google App Engine. The site is curr...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Google Reader

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Today Google Reader was updated with a new UI and Google+ integration. Although the reaction on Reddit seems to be quite negative, I like ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

DARPA Shredder Challenge

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This weekend I started working on the DARPA Shredder Challenge . This is a contest to reconstruct shredded documents. There are a total of f...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Dark Souls Defeated

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I managed to beat dark souls in a total of 57 hours of play time. I made heavy use of the multiplayer components of the game - summoning oth...
Friday, October 07, 2011

Dark Souls

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Demon's Souls was one of the greatest games I have played. The game was so difficult that I considered giving up several times - but...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Fast String Matching

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String matching is an important problem in several fields of computer science such as bioinformatics, data compression, and search engines. ...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Gold Promotion

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I recently got promoted to gold league: Here is the army graph for a match I am proud of: The enemy completely destroyed my army and...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

RoboCup

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I have been in Istanbul , Turkey for the last week at the RoboCup robotics competition. We are competing in the small size league . Today w...

Master's Thesis

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I finished my master's thesis! The final copy is posted here . Now that my thesis is done I can start work at Google. My start date is J...
Friday, July 08, 2011

Crater Detection

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The contest has finished and my final ranking was 6th place. One rank away from a prize! The approach I used was using template matching an...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Crater Detection

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NASA is hosting a TopCoder marathon match to detect craters in satellite images. The contest lasts about two weeks and there are $10,000 in...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Bitcoin

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I recently started bitcoin mining using my GeForce GTX 260 . Some of my friends have invested thousands of dollars into bitcoin mining hard...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Promotion

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I finally got promoted! I went directly from rank one in the bronze league to rank one in silver.
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Website Exploit

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Within a few hours of launching my Rock Paper Scissors website somebody found an exploit. The exploit caused all users to be forwarded to a...

Rock Paper Scissors

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Over the last two days I implemented a new website: Rock Paper Scissors Programming Contest . It is amazing how fast a relatively complex we...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Promote Me!

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In Starcraft 2 I am currently rank 2 of bronze league. However, from what I understand the rank within a league is not very meaningful - the...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Starcraft II

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Last week I bought Starcraft II. The game has already been out for a year, so I am late to the party. I also never played the original Starc...
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