Poetry
When AI Meets Bedil: A Conversation on Poetry, Meaning, and Machine Insight
But beneath all that, a profound reality is that we’re building tools that can engage in subtle, reflective, and culturally rich conversations.
Computing
Volunteer Computing
Volunteer computing is an arrangement where volunteers provide or donate their computer resources to projects. That way, these projects are able to do really advanced and time-consuming computations. Most of these projects are scientific trying to solve different problems. Some are run by universities and other not for profit foundations. Read more…
Computing
AWK One‑Liner: Total a CSV Column in Seconds
Imagine you have a file with multiple columns and you need to quickly get the total of a column in command line in UNIX. The easiest way is to use AWK in the command line. Let’s take the following file: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 Read more…
Programming
Adding Code Formatting Tools in Notepad++
I am a big fan of beautiful code, not only in terms of quality of programming but also formatting the code nicely so that it is easy on eyes. If you are using a full-blown IDE, they come with their own formatting facility, but if you are using a multipurpose Read more…
Programming
PCL – Centering Variable-width Text (Still Stuck with PCL? Read On.)
If you’ve ever had to deal with PCL (Printer Command Language), you’ll know the pain: there’s no command to center text. Some printers support HPGL commands embedded in a PCL file, but not all. If you’re printing predefined text, you can work out measurements and use absolute positioning. Easy enough. Read more…