Ruled-based Citation Checker Using Finite State Automata

Ruled-based Citation Checker Using Finite State Automata

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I was trying to review my crim law reading last night in bed, and thought of the idea of using FSA to check legal citation. If citation in legal writing conforms strictly to some predefined rules (either Bluebook or ALWD), then there’s no reason why the problem can’t be solved by a FSA which describes the finite number of rules set forth in those citation manuals. The solution seems pretty straight forward, and can be implemented fairly elegantly in either…

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High Speed Robotic Hands

High Speed Robotic Hands

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The Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo has developed a robotic hand capable of bouncing and catching a ball at remarkable speed.  Perhaps this is what a prosthetic would do in the near future.

Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop

Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop

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Another StumpleUpon find. My favorite photography subjects are probably beautiful sceneries.  This Photoshop technique give me the the opportunity to take a stunning photo and turn it into an artistic watercolor painting.  I’m guessing it’ll probably be fun to experiment with portraits.

Making a StereoGram

Making a StereoGram

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Gotta love StumpleUpon. I came across this article today that walks through step-by-step on how to make a StereoGram yourself with free open source software gimp, blender, and stereograph.  The guide is written assuming you’re running on a Debian-based distro (like Ubuntu), but maybe there are other ways to run them in other platforms, I haven’t checked. Anyway, I’ll post my own stereograms soon.