Ho John Lee

The Dilbert Principle observes that in the modern economy, the least capable people are promoted to management because companies need their smartest people to do the useful work. This creates a situation where you have more geniuses reporting to morons than at any time in history. In that sort of environment you'd expect the geniuses to be looking for a way out, even if Plan B has a low chance of success. - Ho John Lee

"Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that works in your browser. Which applies, at this state of affairs, only if your browser is Firefox. It looks pretty good with other browsers, but it seems to be almost impossible to catch all the required key bindings—only Firefox allows what we need. Perhaps it can be “fixed” for other browsers, but I haven't got the time nor the motivation to try yet. This project is based on DynarchLIB, my AJAX toolkit. DynarchLIB used to be a closed project, but a new version will be released under a similar open license Real Soon Now. " - Ho John Lee

Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). We develop an open source machine learning toolkit which provides * algorithms for machine learning utilising the power of multi-core/multi-threaded processors/operating systems (Linux, WIndows, Mac OS X), * a graphical user interface for users who want to quickly prototype machine learning experiments, * tutorials to support learning about Statistical Machine Learning (Statistical Machine Learning at The Australian National University), and * detailed and precise documentation for each of the above. Elefant is developed by the ADA (Automated Data Analysis) group at NiCTA, Australia. - Ho John Lee

A collection of interesting command line utilities, some new ones to me. - Ho John Lee

WebShell is a web-based ssh shell. It runs on any browser capable of JavaScript and AJAX. You can use it from any computer or iPhone/smartphone. The server is written in Python and is very easy to set up on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, and any Unix that runs python 2.3. WebShell is based on Ajaxterm. s - Ho John Lee

Pointers to interesting APIs and wish list for new functionality, e.g. "a search interface for reality 'so I can find my damn keys when I lose them'." - Ho John Lee

Pointers to interesting online resources for statistics, data mining, and machine learning, including a pointer to Al Drake's (out of print) probability book at MIT Open Courseware. - Ho John Lee

One power user's routine for scanning and filtering the online news stream in real time. - Ho John Lee

Comments on new location-aware applications apps possible with publicly accessible, geocoded tweet status messages. - Ho John Lee