daniel shiffman

I recently participated in 7 in 7, a scheme cooked up by the ITP resident researchers to do seven creative projects in seven days. The project inspired the currently running and oh so more manageable 5 in 5. The rules are:

Projects must be completed in a day.
Each project needs a name and documentation posted by the end of the day.

Although I did complete seven projects, it took me nine days, and some of the projects were arguably not creative, but rather a quick experiment or a “i’ve been meaning to do this for the last five years so let me see if I can just get it started in one hour” deal-ee-o. Code-wise I worked on adapting examples into Java from the wonderful book Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran, began the process of thinking about self-publishing a book, and developed a quick bayesian classification Processing library (which I would like to make more fully functional), among other things.

Best of luck to the five in fivers, look forward to seeing the results! And a quick plug to the ITP residents’ show, which will be this Saturday, August 2nd! Details here.