GECCO 2007 Hat Trick

Yup, never happened to me before. In John Koza’s words: Hat Trick, best paper in EDA track and two Bronze medals in the HUMIES competition. I just think that I was lucky and blessed to have the pleasure to work with such great people. It would not have happened if it wasn’t for them. Below you can find some of the presentations for the above Hat Trick, as well as some other work I presented on genetics-based machine learning. ...

Jul 13, 2007 · 1 min · 79 words · Xavier Llorà

HTML to Wiki converter

Seapine {Labs}::HTML to Wiki Converter is an online converter of HTML formated code into a Wiki (MediaWiki) sintax. Very convenient if you want to add already formated material.

Jun 3, 2007 · 1 min · 28 words · Xavier Llorà

Blogging about NCSA PSP

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow NCSA is running the PSP 2007 meeting. You may find some of my blogging about it here.

May 22, 2007 · 1 min · 21 words · Xavier Llorà

Reset user’s password on a MediaWiki

I needed to reset the password for a user on a MediaWiki site. Luckily, I run into this post “Reset a user password on MediaWiki - Greg’s Postgres stuff” which helps you to do so. The five-cent summary for a MySQL powered site: UPDATE user SET user_password = md5(CONCAT('123-',md5('newpassword'))) WHERE user_id=123;

May 14, 2007 · 1 min · 51 words · Xavier Llorà

An Overview of the DISCUS project

This presentation covers a general overview of the goals, origins, reasearch and tools currently available for the DISCUS project. For more information please visit the DISCUS project website. A follow up presentation with further details is also available here.

May 11, 2007 · 1 min · 39 words · Xavier Llorà