Author Archives: Telmo Menezes
Does A/B testing hurt creativity?
I have this intuition for some time that there is a trade-off between strict design methodologies like A/B testing and creativity. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, until a couple of days ago, when I realized that A/B … Continue reading
My poster at ECCS11
My poster at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2011 is called “A Process for Mapping Large Directed Networks to 2D Images and its Applications”.
Deleting a Django Database
While developing an application with Django, it may take some time for the database model to stabilize. It’s common that you’ll want to add new columns to existing tables. Unfortunately, the ./manage.py syncdb command will not be sufficient in this … Continue reading
Installing NumPy and matplotlib on OS X
Given that OS X provides you with Python, you would expect it to be easy to install Python libraries on a modern Mac. Unfortunately, that’s not always true. Case in point: NumPy and matplotlib. These are my favorite tools nowadays … Continue reading
The One Bit Turing Test
The other day I was thinking about the Turing test and its implications. I like the Turing test more for its value as a thought experiment than has a real goal for Artificial Intelligence. My problem with it is that, … Continue reading