I am - therefore I think (sometimes)

A blog on C.S. incorporating this and that from AI and adjacent fields - mostly as a blue print to document a personal learning process ...

Data and Analytics Cool

Today’s post is a mere link dump about current preview projects coming straight from SQL Azure Labs,...

Author: cbitter Date: 01/10/2012

F#, Wordle and Visual Text Analysis

In the previous post, I presented Wordle as a beautiful tool to compress natural language...

Author: cbitter Date: 12/10/2011

F# and Wordle

For those of us, who have not yet heard of Wordle: Wordle is a toy for generating “word...

Author: cbitter Date: 12/01/2011

MSR-puts the fun in Software Engineering

Some time ago, Microsoft Research (MSR) made Pex (a white-box testing tool) universally available in...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/13/2011

Powershell–Query Disk Space

Today’s post is the advertisement of a simple script, which uses Powershell and WMI to query the...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/10/2011

Adventures towards F# readability

Influenced by the sheer beauty of F# and the practicality of FsUnit, I decided to approach the...

Author: cbitter Date: 07/14/2011

Some things to check out

  Today’s post is merely a link dump, of things I found while digging through my rss archive:...

Author: cbitter Date: 07/01/2011

A Porter Stemmer in F#

  Citing from the introduction to Martin Porter’s work [1]: Removing suffixes by automatic...

Author: cbitter Date: 06/24/2011

F#-Querying WordNet Online

  Todays post focuses on using F# to query Princeton’s WordNet Online service for information...

Author: cbitter Date: 06/10/2011

F# and TFS2010–Retrieving all Work Items

  Today’s post is merely a little code fragment, that gets you started with using the TFS2010...

Author: cbitter Date: 06/01/2011

MSBuild–Workflow via items

  In an earlier installment, I covered using MSBuild item metadata to serve as the high-level...

Author: cbitter Date: 05/20/2011

MSBuild–Target Dispatch via Metadata

  In a (somewhat) recent post, I elaborated on using ItemDefinitionGroup to create the...

Author: cbitter Date: 05/07/2011

MSBuild ItemDefinitionGroup

  Quite recently, I have to admit, I found that MSBuild has been enhanced (in Version .NET 3.5)...

Author: cbitter Date: 10/05/2010

Learning (A Challenge)

And here, poor fool, I stand once more, No wiser than I was before. [J. W. v. Goethe, Faust I] Much...

Author: cbitter Date: 09/02/2010

MSR Rex

  Taken from MSR Rex’s site: “Rex is a tool that explores .NET regexes and generates members...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/21/2010

MSR Projects and Sites

As a mental note, if you will, I find the following Microsoft Research (MSR) links and or projects...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/08/2010

Testing Blogs

Today I found two interesting reads on testing … as it seems the business of testing touches the...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/05/2010

MSBuild 4.0 Inline Task

  The previous posting made use of property functions to allow for non-standard build steps...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/02/2010

MSBuild 4.0 Property Functions

  In a community presentation I gave more than a year ago, I made the case for MSBuild being a...

Author: cbitter Date: 08/02/2010

Start Listening – System.Speech.Recognition

After having tested the speech synthesis part of SAPI, this post will present a little example to do...

Author: cbitter Date: 10/20/2009

Testing System.Speech.Synthesis

Before testing SWI-Speech, I thought I pay the System.Speech (SAPI .NET managed code) a little...

Author: cbitter Date: 09/25/2009

Wohoo did you notice that

IE 8’s BING search provider box has support for the BING search images?! See the picture below where...

Author: cbitter Date: 09/18/2009

SWI-CS-PL – A First Glimpse

My exploration of Prolog and .NET led me to the C# interface to SWI-Prolog developed by Uwe Lesta....

Author: cbitter Date: 09/16/2009

P# - first glimpse

According to the PSharp manual: "P# is a Prolog implementation designed for use with Microsoft’s...

Author: cbitter Date: 09/12/2009