(entropy, java, randomness)

  This cartoon of Dilbert always has always fascinated me. You can never be sure about randomness, since the concept itself of randomness provides uncertainty to the process. A few years ago, I even wrote a post on how to achieve randomness using deterministic methods. Nowadays, entropy can always be improved to obtain a more accurate...

(Android, artificial intelligence, sentimental analysis)

Lately I have been interested in applying data analysis to information sources, particularly Twitter. Twitter has all the necessary features to provide an effective real time analysis: the API they provide allows us to access all the required features for analysis, and the volume of information is just huge. I strongly believe that Twitter has...

(ai, aiide, artificial intelligence, starcraft)

Reading and thinking the last days about how to implement an intelligent system to play Starcraft, I had time to think about the implications of considering a system "intelligent". Nowadays, we can develop systems that are able to defeat human intelligence in certain genres. Some board games like chess, or most of the shooters are composed...

(Android, twitter)

Posting from Android into Twitter is one of the earliest stages of an Android developer. To keep full control over the posting process, we will use prefer primarily a pure OAuth post instead of dealing with Intents, so we can keep full control. So as a user, we could just think and conclude: the most typical way to authenticate is to pop up a...

(Android, c2dm, push)

As part of the training and pushing the boundaries in my department, we recently experimented with Push technologies and their application to mobile development. Whereas iPhone seems to support natively push messaging, we soon realize that Android was not perfect in this direction. Surprisingly they haven't yet considered that a native push...