[#358392] Increase significant digits in Float — Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhite@...>

If I want to increase my significant digits beyond 15 in a result of a

12 messages 2010/03/02

[#358431] A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>

I'm writing a program that needs to generate two or three temporary

21 messages 2010/03/03
[#358432] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Paul Harrington <xenogenesis@...> 2010/03/03

Albert Schlef wrote:

[#358443] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/03/03

Paul Harrington wrote:

[#358486] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2010/03/03

On 3/2/10, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:

[#358485] Test::Unit::Omission - Unable to omit tests — Champak Ch <champaka@...>

I am trying to omit some tests while using the test unit framework. My

12 messages 2010/03/03

[#358551] Shared hosting recommendation? — Rafael Vega <email.rafa@...>

Hello!

10 messages 2010/03/04

[#358559] Limit number of concurrent running threads in pool — Joe Martin <jm202@...>

Hi

14 messages 2010/03/04

[#358576] A good portable text editor/IDE for Ruby? — Reiichi Tyrael <xxreiichixx@...>

I am searching for a good portable text editor or IDE for Ruby to use on

19 messages 2010/03/05

[#358586] Base-64 encoding--Just for the fun of it! — "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@...>

Yes, there's always:

10 messages 2010/03/05

[#358611] On what of these books is better to start to study Ruby? — Vlad Gerasimov <refermaker@...>

I have 3 books:

12 messages 2010/03/05

[#358634] Conditional keys in hash - out of the box? — "Sven S." <svoop@...>

Hi

12 messages 2010/03/05

[#358661] Why no TextMate for Linux? — thunk <gmkoller@...>

I spent some happy development time in "VisualAge" for Smalltalk +

42 messages 2010/03/06

[#358702] win32console 1.3.0.beta2 Released — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>

win32console version 1.3.0.beta2 has been released!

17 messages 2010/03/07

[#358757] Shortest code — Prasanth Ravi <dare.take@...>

hi i'm a newbie in ruby and was test out some interesting problems in

18 messages 2010/03/08

[#358885] reading an UTF-8 encoded file — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

13 messages 2010/03/10

[#359008] Dir.glob problem — David Vlad <cluny_gisslaren@...>

In the program Im making I need to read some wma files into a variable

21 messages 2010/03/12

[#359031] Newbie Help : Object — Jerome David Sallinger <imran.nazir@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2010/03/13

[#359090] Overriding new? — Andrea Dallera <andrea@...>

Hi everybody,

19 messages 2010/03/15
[#359091] Re: Overriding new? — Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...> 2010/03/15

[#359093] Re: Overriding new? — Andrea Dallera <andrea@...> 2010/03/15

Hei Chuck,

[#359130] Recommended way to install Rubygems — Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>

Hi!

64 messages 2010/03/16
[#359175] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2010/03/17

On Mar 16, 2010, at 03:22, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

[#359176] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/17

(Please Cc me when replying, I don't follow ruby-talk@ closely enough to

[#359183] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Nick Brown <nick@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas: Thanks for maintaining the Ruby package in Ubuntu!

[#359187] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 13:36 +0900, Nick Brown wrote:

[#359200] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Nick Brown <nick@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

[#359204] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 23:05 +0900, Nick Brown wrote:

[#359210] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2010/03/18

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Lucas Nussbaum

[#359215] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 23:45 +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#359230] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

[#359233] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 19/03/10 at 02:49 +0900, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

[#359171] Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Shiny Hydra <slotriof@...>

Hello everyone,

12 messages 2010/03/17
[#359192] Re: Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/18

2010/3/17 Shiny Hydra <slotriof@guerrillamailblock.com>:

[#359198] Re: Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Shiny Hydra <slotriof@...> 2010/03/18

> So your file has fixed width records? This is important to know,

[#359255] Grouping elements of an array — Steve Wilhelm <steve@...831.com>

I have an array of records that contain timestamps at random intervals.

24 messages 2010/03/18

[#359354] Living with a Swarm of Boids - A report from the front — thunk <gmkoller@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2010/03/20

[#359388] A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...>

Hi.

17 messages 2010/03/21
[#359394] Re: A plugin system using extend — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2010/03/21

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@vauguet.fr> wrote:

[#359398] Re: A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...> 2010/03/21

Thank you Josh. Actually I've already tested what you wrote and that's

[#359402] Re: A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...> 2010/03/21

Another idea I had is the following:

[#359410] Re: A plugin system using extend — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2010/03/21

On Mar 21, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Jean-denis Vauguet wrote:

[#359420] Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...>

Hello,

23 messages 2010/03/21
[#359422] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...> 2010/03/21

> I am trying to "Read Content" of all the files from a Directory. So far

[#359423] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...> 2010/03/21

> arr = Dir.open("K:/test").entries

[#359464] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/22

2010/3/21 Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@jmnet.us>:

[#360368] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

> If it is only for output purposes, we can actually do it in one line:

[#360370] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/04/04

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@hotmail.com> wrote:

[#360373] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

Thanks for replying ,when I am doing

[#360374] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...> 2010/04/04

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@hotmail.com> wrote:

[#360375] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

Hassan Schroeder wrote:

[#359662] index of string from beginning of line vs beginning of file — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>

I am trying to write a basic script to implement "silent comments"

10 messages 2010/03/25
[#359663] Re: index of string from beginning of line vs beginning of file — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/03/25

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:

[#359684] Ruby Summer of Code 2010 — Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>

Fellow Rubyists, I'm proud to announce the first annual Ruby Summer of Code.

20 messages 2010/03/26
[#359985] Re: [ANN] Ruby Summer of Code 2010 — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/03/30

Jeremy Kemper wrote:

[#359697] Ruby and user documentation — Michel Demazure <michel@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2010/03/26

[#359749] Boid writeup idea — thunk <gmkoller@...>

30 messages 2010/03/26

[#359909] return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>

How would I find the number of spaces at the beginning of a line before

28 messages 2010/03/30
[#359925] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2010/03/30

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:

[#359941] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/30

2010/3/30 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>:

[#359945] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...> 2010/03/30

This second post with the "spaces only" fix seems to meet all the needs

[#359961] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/30

2010/3/30 Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com>:

[#360011] RubyDictionary - First Try — Max Schmidt <max.schmidt.privat@...>

Hello folks,

12 messages 2010/03/30
[#360035] Re: RubyDictionary - First Try — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/03/31

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Max Schmidt

[#360033] Playing Games with "Ruids" — thunk <gmkoller@...>

46 messages 2010/03/31

Re: Boid writeup idea

From: andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>
Date: 2010-03-27 23:52:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #359784
Much ado about something fairly straight forward.

I gave him my phone number to see if real time communication would shed any
light on what this is.

Essentially you have two parts to this that would be of interest.

first part is a webform that is a front end to a code generator (think along
the lines of how scaffolding works in rails 2.x)


This web form would be aware of a list of methods (no big deal there).

The next part is this misnomer of Boids.

Really you should think of them as @$$hol3s (i'll call them agents to make
things easier.). space balls clip/ reference :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4CSuKaePY (nsfw -language)

The real trick here seems to be emergent behavior.

 each agent is given a simple task and these tasks would build up to some
emergent behavior.

This is what I got out of the conversation.

I have only seen the same code everyone else here has seen.

appears to be what this is all about. a quasi dsl (really a collection of
methods) that have several process. each process has some code that makes an
assertion.

This probably doesn't clarify anything up, but that's what I understood it
to be.

Now on to application:

1) forex/financial - you could have a collection of these agents assert is a
chart up or down. This seems like an overkill of a solution at first until
you begin to try to trade every currency at the same time. Why would you do
this? Because High Frequency trading isn't thrilling enough already. That's
why. Other then that,  who knows. Maybe Dr. Cham has a better answer.


 Couldn't you do this with distributed Ruby and rspec/ something more sane
(speed wise) like Ocaml? Sure, but this is a ruby form, not Ocaml.



2)The dead end expert systems road- If each agent is set to look for a
collection of words and put them into a generic list. The next swarm could
do the same with an additional collection of words until every word in a set
(say this mailing list) is accounted for. Then additional swarms could begin
to try to tag emails to labels using some form of language processing.

Again, are there saner ways of doing this. Yes. Why bother? Because
intellectual masturbation is fun.

3) Venture Capital. enough said.

Is there something here? If that question boils down to is there application
for this, then its a resounding yes.

However if the question is whether or not this is the best tool for a
distributed or expert system-esque job, then that's a question I don't know
the answer too. Ocam's Razor doesn't appear to be in full support of this
boid/agent system.

Andrew McElroy



On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM, thunk <gmkoller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Robert.
> >
> > Plug-ins fit the external contribution feature, but they imply a much
> > larger program unit.   These things run 70 lines all stretched out,
> > half of the lines are things like the author name, date,
> > categorization "points" and such.  So far I have many Boids that only
> > make 2-3-4 assertions.
> >
> > Maybe "pluglets", borrowing from sun? :)
> >
> > I wonder what actual work is getting done by totally papered "Boids"?
> >
> > Anybody know?    I read about them in the context of some operations
> > research problems.  The SciFi book from the 40's "Last Men, First
> > Men" (or close) is supposed to be the first "official" reference to
> > Swarm Intelligence, I bought the book but found it stilted and just
> > strange, it is one of very few books I started and have never
> > completed.
> >
> > I will listen to these immortal words by the Trashmen for inspiration,
> > (backwards at 78rpm) snipped in below...
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Thunk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > A-well-a everybody's heard about the boid
> > B-b-b-boid, boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, the boid is the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, well the boid is the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, well the boid is the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, boid, well the boid is the word
> > A-well-a boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a don't you know about the boid?
> > Well, everybody knows that the boid is the word!
> > A-well-a boid, boid, b-boid's the word
> > A-well-a...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
>

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