I really want to eat these … right now!
I am not dead…
Hot off the press. I made this in the past few minutes while watching QI. It is a quote by Hans Christian Andersen speaking about his fear of being buried alive.
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Histograms
Tonight I was helping a friend produce a histogram in MATLAB, a mathematical program. Generating the histogram wasn’t the hardest part, it was placing the frequency over each bar and also redefining the x-axis labels (XTicks) according to the intervals.
So an m-file was quickly drafted up and did the job pretty nicely (with the help of Google of course). It reads a data file with a single column of data.
If you want to use/take a look at the source code, feel free to head over to Snipplr.
What is Open? A simple description of APIs.
APIs are becoming more and more commonplace, and more necessary for businesses of any kind to extend their offerings.
Along with this proliferation, comes confusion and misinformation among those who have a need to understand APIs at a basic level, but aren’t developers or technical in any way.
This is our shot at a clear, plain English explanation of APIs and why they’re important.
