I have a game for you

April 15th, 2008   Filed Under Game for you(tm)  

1) Look at this picture:

Yay

2) Guess when it was built and where.

3) Click here to see the answer.

OB on 8

April 10th, 2008   Filed Under OBSearch  

I am running OB on a 8GB linux box! This is the first time in my life my programs run with more than 4GB. Sensei came with a technician, he took the dimms from his suitcase and put them in the server. He didn’t even check them. Yay!

Hopefully they will behave.

City Office Housing & Other things.

April 8th, 2008   Filed Under Japan  

Today we had a meeting with Muroya-san, the person from city office that is in charge of our housing. We have to pay about $30 per month! As I am sharing the house with Gilberto, I only have to pay $15. Gilberto was elected president of the International student’s association.

Dreamhost is back

April 8th, 2008   Filed Under OBSearch  

Now the file server seems to be fine and Dreamhost is running fast. I hope it won’t happen again!

I am looking for some test data and a distance function to test the data. I would like to match vectors but I can’t find a decent data set. I might need to synthesize the data.

April 7th, 2008   Filed Under Thoughts  

女の人の心は複雑。本当に。
自分の心も
どんどん分かるようになりたい。

Executing OBSearch with TED

April 7th, 2008   Filed Under OBSearch  

In the next few days, I am going to run OBSearch with the tree edit distance function defined by Tai in the 70s. The fastest algorithm available is O(n^3). In sequential mode last time I ran it, it took 3 days to answer 1000 queries. With the new pivot selection strategies I added, I am hoping to reduce considerably this time. I will post the results when I complete the tests.

Dreamhost downtime

April 7th, 2008   Filed Under Uncategorized  

Dreamhost was having issues for the past 11 days. I could not use my subversion repository and wordpress was very slow. They had some issues with one cluster but now everything seems to be OK. The only reason I didn’t move was because I’ve got a lot of domains and it seems complicated to move to another place. They were open with the issue at least!

I would be happy if they offered me a 20GB account but without all these issues.

Looking for x86 to Java bytecode converters

April 2nd, 2008   Filed Under Furia  

So far, I’ve found Cybil and NestedVM, they convert MIPS instructions into Java Bytecode. It would be nice if I could get something that converts X86 into Java or into LLVM Bytecode.