21
Jan
2012
name2gender in python

The problem is the following. Given a name or an email address how can you guess the gender ? The answer is as simple as that. It’s all about Data. US Social Security Administration office http://www.ssa.gov/ created a service where you can request the number of births of a babies per name per gender since

28
May
2011
Robot rock

After three weeks of development we finally finished our project in robotics. The task was to construct a robot from lego parts from the lego NXT kit. It wasn’t so straighforward how to achieve that since a bad design could cause a lot of trouble in the end. Finally, we ended up with a simple

15
May
2011
Sol Robeson wise words

Sol Robeson: Have you met Archimedes? The one with the black spots, you see? You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he’s received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks – insomnia haunts him and he twists

24
Feb
2011
Real-time jam session system

I’ve always been fascinated by arts and science. But, what was getting me excited most was their combination and one of my ambitions is to achieve that. As a computer scientist I couldn’t find a better way to fulfill this ambition. I finally chose my MSc project which combines my two passions. Algorithms and music.

18
Feb
2011
Simple CAPTCHA solver in python

This is a very simple method for exploiting very simple CAPTCHAs  like those proposed here and here . In this example we are going to use the following images. It’s easy to observe the followings. First of all, a fixed size (monospace) font has been used. This makes extracting all the letters and using them

17
Feb
2011
Hello world!

Well, this is (I hope) my final try to keep a blog or a log of my ideas, thoughts and things I like. So, ss the title says, Hello (internet) World. The template currently used is the result of my work the last 2 days. It was developed from scratch using: 960 framework WordPress Adobe