daniel shiffman

(I’m behind on my obligatory “I posted something new” post. Here goes. . .)

New P5 Nature of Code tutorials online!
Now with light grey background!
Hot particle action!
All sine and cosine all the time!
(and something on web crawlers too)

yeah, so, um, it snowed. like, a lot a lot.

i’m obsessed with the new yorker caption contest and the fact that i can never think of anything remotely funny. and when i say never, i mean never. like, i stare at it for hours and nothing. not even an “i wish i were taller.” it’s totally pathetic.
the solution to […]

I’ve developed a basic Java implementation of Paul Graham’s bayesian spam filter as an example for my Programming from A to Z course. A full explanation is available. This isn’t a robust spam filter by any means, but simply demonstrates the basics.
The above visualization was quickly hacked out with Processing and shows the […]