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15 February 2013
Pretty soon after I had my poker bot mostly up and running I realized that nearly the entire runtime was dominated by a single function: finding the hand value (e.g. trip 8’s with a KJ kicker) of a five card hand. The code was being called again and again by...
10 February 2013
Back and kicking (my faithful PogoPlug died on me) on a RaspberryPi. Sweet.
Since I last checked in, I’ve started working on a a poker bot and I’ve done a whole lot of mobile development over at TripAdvisor.
More updates to come, now that the site works again…
21 May 2012
On Friday Jack and I taught two classes a little bit about robotics. They’ve been doing NXT programming for a couple weeks now, so we talked about a light follower loop that turns towards whichever sensor is getting more light. Next each class made some websites, which I promised I’d...
18 September 2011
Just got back from a great weekend up at Bowdoin! This was my first official post-grad visit, and I think the strangest part was not being able to get into buildings (except for the Kanbar computer lab, go figure). Otherwise it was great to meet some of the new members...
13 September 2011
SOOooo, I decided to set up a real blog. As great as a bunch of p’s and hr’s all smashed together on a page were, I figured it was time to move to something easier on all of us. Jekyll is a nifty ruby-based website generator. It runs through a...
31 January 2011
Hey everyone! I have a use for this site again: my CS project needed a home on the web… You can check it out under multiTRACE vision in the sidebar. Also interestingly, since I’ve been away Ben Johnson and I have founded a mobile development company, Two Fourteen Software (yes,...
25 February 2010
Been a while, eh? Nothing really exciting except that thanks to a godaddy special this site now lives at gnmerritt.net. Oh, and the school no longer allows students to have cgi-bin access so the written works section I wrote freshmen year doesn’t do anything anymore. Yeah, that’s really all I’ve...