[python-uk] Sudoku links & dojo ideas

[Thomas Dunham]

Hi Jonathan,
I'm up for that too.

Tom



On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jonathan Hartley <tartley at tartley.com> wrote:
> Is anyone interested in going through those Strang's lectures with me? Like
> a book club. We could watch one lecture a week at our own convenience, and
> then use a google group or somesuch to discuss our answers to the exercises.
>
> A few of us are currently doing the same with SICP, and although our
> progress is not terrifically speedy, it seems to be working out.
>
>    Jonathan
>
>
> On 11/12/2009 10:20, Ben Moran wrote:
>>
>> If anyone is interested in the Sudoku solver from last night's dojo, the
>> code & links to the original paper can be found at
>> http://transfinite.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/solving-sudoku-with-l1-norm-minimization/
>> .  The slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/bnmoran/l1-sudoku-2657614 .
>>
>> (If you have been inspired to brush up your linear algebra, a good place
>> is Gilbert Strang's MIT course,
>>  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm
>> )
>>
>> Thinking about ideas for future events, I think it could be fun to do some
>> more hands-on coding in small groups.  How about:
>>
>> - Something like Robocode (maybe using Jython?
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/edu-sig@python.org/msg05371.html)
>> - Playing with the IPython parallel features -
>> http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.9.1/html/parallel/index.html
>> - Something with Twisted- I'm really keen to learn this. Perhaps we could
>> set up a chat server using the demo projects, find some Eliza chatbot code &
>> wire it in and stage a networked Turing test...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Ben
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