programming

Program Like it's 1996, a practical satire.

Bring your own computer.

Let's talk about Bayesian classifiers. They're everywhere. They filter your spam, recommend new links, and categorize web pages.

Why are they so omnipresent? Because the math behind them is simple to understand, and simple to implement. So simple, in fact, that we'll do it in an hour.

I'll go over Bayes' theorem and how it relates to classification. I'll walk you through creating basic tokenization, training, and testing functions. Then we'll categorize stuff.

My implementation language will be Perl, but you're welcome to use whatever language you'd like.

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems. The World Wide Web is the key example of a RESTful design. Much of it conforms to the REST principles.

There are a lot of APIs today that are RESTful, and I've found this makes it really easy to hack together small applications to get at data and do what you want with it.

This (proposed) session would look at some of the RESTful APIs available today and explain how they work, and maybe get into showing some simple sample code.