Most people don't get Unicode right. It is not their fault, I believe the biggest trouble here is that people underestimate the complexity of Unicode.
I've been working with text manipulation tasks using Python for a long time. During the last ten years I've been collecting thousands ...
We've previously said that most of the algorithms we are looking at on this post series are common to many other games. This post will explain how to make an engine that plays Connect Four and in the meantime prepare the road for the chess engine. We are going ...
In the previous post we've discussed about how to choose the best move in a game. The algorithm we've talked about is quite simple but a little detail was ignored: the move generation. Actually we've omit this detail because it's not a small topic and it ...
A chess engine selects the best move to do given a board configuration. There are several ways to achieve it, despite the common sense, the most used and studied is the simplest: exhaustive search.
In fact, most of deterministic games with two players (chess, checkers, go, etc...) can ...
I had flu last weekend and I've looked for something to take advantage of the long stay at home. Eventually I took back some of my old work done on chess engines as I've been thinking recently about making some experiments on them again.
I've started downloading ...
As I haven't found any explanation on the web about this useful algorithm, I've decided to write this post. Consider this a follow up of the previous post about the n-smallest algorithm.
Actually the problem we wanted to solve in that post was not really the generic ...
I want to highlight a simple trick that I've used in the sampling script of the language detector written in another post.
The trick I'm talking about is the one in the following line:
awk '{print rand() "\t" $0}' | sort -nk1 | cut -f 2-
Few months ago, during the development of a demo of a product we wanted to try a new feature that required language detection. I couldn't find a pluggable one so we've decided to quickly build up our own. This might sound complicate for many of you but indeed ...
One of the last project I've worked on use MongoDB for collecting events, manipulate them and computing statistics. MongoDB is quite popular nowadays but I couldn't find any doc about integrating it with Python unittest.
When I run tests I like to have a self-configured environment that just ...
Many years ago, SkiceLab was just an idea and Marco and I were technology enthusiasts trying to build whatever came to our minds. Today, searching for my old stuff in the basement, I've found this:
Divx were getting popular and the regular media devices lacked support for it. We ...