Open-Source and related Stuff
Just spent a bit of time resurrecting a defunct project on Sourceforge, containing some neural and immuno algorithms, after somebody wanted to use it withing my python-weka-wrapper tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wekaclassalgos/ The project was tailored to Weka 3.6.4 and hadn’t been maintained…
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Just released a new version of processoutput4j, adding the ability to stream the stdout/stderr output to an owning object (implementing StreamingProcessOwner) via the StreamingProcessOutput class. That makes it easy to react to the output of the process as it is…
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For targeted Java applications, e.g., embedded ones, you quite often don’t need the full range of classes that a library comes with. The same applies to Weka. Quite often, you can get away with just the core data structures and…
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I’m currently working on multi-search support within Meka, but it required some changes to make that work. So instead of requiring a MultiSearch classifier as owner for the various multi-search objects, it now requires a MultiSearchCapable interface. Very minor change,…
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Moving a user/password protected in-house subversion repository of a Maven project to GitHub requires some tweaking after the move, in order to get the continuous integration working again with Jenkins. However, once you know the steps, it is actually straight-forward….
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Finally came across a migration guide (subversion to git), one that actually worked: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git Main issue with the migration was the sub-division of the repository into base/addons/incubator/etc. However, I decided to skip really old code and just start at a…
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Here’s one for us old-fogies that don’t like the new fandangled behavior of scrollbars, moving to where you click instead of scrolling (drives me nuts when scrolling through posts). For GTK do the following: Create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini add the following content…
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A recent bug report on stackoverflow prompted me to make new releases of the python-weka-wrapper/python-weka-wrapper3 libraries. The reasons for the problem were incorrectly packaged jars inside the weka.jar (mtl.jar, core.jar, arpack_combined_all.jar), resulting in M5P failing to find all its required…
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For one of my projects, python-weka-wrapper, I used pythonhosted.org approach for hosting my sphinx-generated documentation. However, pythonhosted.org was recently down with the documentation no longer accessible. Hence I decided to use the Pages feature from Github. Considering that the documentation…
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One thing that I have been missing lately was a nice Java library that provides rsync-like functionality. But I didn’t really find anything suitable, so I decided to write a Java wrapper for it myself, trying to make it as…
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