Things that are useful and possibly interesting
Us geeks occasionally produce things in our spare time that are useful to
other geeks. Here are some of mine.
- HTML 4.0 characters
- I couldn't find complete charts anywhere, so I made some with the help of
Russell O'Connor.
These contain every named entity you can have in an HTML
4.0 document (with descriptions and optional inlined images of a sample
glyphs).
- Perl Spanish verb conjugation quiz (beta)
- This runs on DOS (386 or better), DOS under Win9x, and Unix. You may
need to edit
verbs.rc first. The zip above contains a
binary perl interpreter and other required files for DOS, but to run
this under Unix you just need the code (available in
this gzip'd tar file). You will probably want
to add more verbs to the ones I've put in the database; all of this is
explained in the built-in help.
- Todo: add more verbs, handle reflexive verbs and the two cases of the
imperfect subjunctive, add a feature to take a word and determine if it
is a conjugation of a known verb, make a web version, and use a proper,
complete Spanish verb conjugation engine (see below). Let's be honest,
though; I'm highly unlikely to get around to this anytime before the
next Ice Age.
- If you want to see full conjugations for a Spanish verb, check out
Comp-jugador
by Daniel M. Germán, or
Spanish Verbal Essence
by David Kamholz. Source is available for both, and I've prepared
a Win32 port for the former.
Stuff that's just interesting
- A survey paper comparing voting methods
- Evaluating Voting Methods
(HTML,
.ps,
.tex)
- See also a related Usenet post of mine.
- Various course papers on game theory
- Approaches to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
(HTML,
.ps,
.tex)
- Hobbesian Egoism in Contemporary Realism
(HTML,
.ps,
.tex)
- Co-operation and co-operatives
(HTML,
.ps,
.tex)
- A good resource on game theory and the IPD is the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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