Sorry, readers! I don't have much at all to post! I went to the B Sides conference and didn't do anything of note (that is pertinent to this blog) besides that!

Till next week!

:D

Programming Project: Text Analysis

Hello readers :)

Anyone who knows anything about me knows I read addictively. Aside from the countless articles I read daily, I also read a large number of books (sometimes a few at a time, depending on what type of book). All the books I read are non-fiction, by-the-way (I REALLY don't like reading fiction-- sci-fi excluded).

Presently, one of the books I am reading is called The Secret Life of Pronouns. Now, because I have a project page, because I love programming (particularly in C), because I am hyperanalytical and because positively LOVE deducing and/or inferring things people are saying by how they speak, I decided to use this text as a launching point for a program that I will make to analyze medium/large text fragments.

I might add that when only going over in my own mind as to how EXACTLY I would write the program based SOLELY upon the aforementioned book, there REALLY isn't enough to go on! For instance, much is written on the over/under use of the words like: I/me/my v. we/our's. However, no specific fraction is mentioned. This specific instance ALONE makes it clear that I have a lot of googling/research ahead of me to perfectly clarify this point! If I fail to clarify this, I will simply output ratios of each "cluster." So that, if I should EVER come across this in a future I can add a simple if/then/else loop which goes off of those ratios.

My plan of attack is to go about this in passes:

 First, I will do simple things like pronoun use (I say that now-- referring to my using the word "simple"!  : /  ). 
            Pronoun use can relay information about whether or not you are depressed, 
            emotionally distant, authoritative, and your gender.

Then, I am thinking I will have to create emotive clusters (which incorporate synonyms, for instance).
           I WILL say on this that using words like sad, frustrated, etc. does NOT 
           have to mean that you are an unhappy person.

Perhaps, my third pass will incorporate proper participle of speech.
         This can predict gender, age, and education.


I consider this to be a project which takes an infinite amount of time. For, one can ALWAYS refine such a program. However, I would expect my proposed schedule to run something like this:

Stage 1: one month (I have to do some-one line research to do, for one thing).
Stage 2: two months (I can go to thesuarus.com to look up synonyms but, programming all of them will take time. There are non-synonymous words which belong in these clusters, also).
Stage 3: one month (I have to do some-one line research to do, for one thing).

There are --POSSIBLY-- insurmountable problems. For instance, how does one code for the program to acknowledge sarcasm.

I do plan on offering to give people updates of the program if they ask for it (after I state that it is available, of course).

Wish me luck! I might need it... : /     :D
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So, I had thought of deleting this entry. For, it has been shelved till further notice. Why, though? Did I give up?! Pssshh! I would NEVER!

What happened is that, upon going back over the book which inspired me, I realized that nothing concrete was given: All findings were written too "generally" and I had no base line to go off of. Sounds about righ,t considering the author is a psychologist. So, till THEN, my friends, this project will be nothing more than a fantasy ;-) Unless, someone would like to send me some information?!
 ;-)

Hello :)

Alright, so I have no pictures for you guys this week! Sorry.

What I worked on this week was finishing up a fair number of circuit boards AND I started work on the RFID project. Specifically, a pro-type was formulated and parts were tracked down. Next up will be to see how well the pro-type fares! :)

Till next week!

The Train Project

Sorry it's been a while since my last post but, Def Con and Black Hat were last week!

This week, I have been inordinately productive which is why this post is likely to be short and is a bit late! Here, I have been working on what I refer to as only the "Train Project" which amounts to increasing the efficiency of trains by 20% or so. The entire idea was inspired by this paper:  http://web.ing.puc.cl/~power/paperspdf/dixon/60a.pdf . Thus, I have been spending much of my time pouring over it and going through both the diagrams and the calculations! Also, I got to build two circuits (each of the same circuit design). Lastly, I have been doing a number of calculations. I'd post my work but, it is not very attractive looking. Sorry :(  My notes are pretty good looking though...

Some of the guys (random, indeed):

Some of my note pages  ;)    :

At least, I think they are pretty nice looking. If you disagree, surely you can imagine what my calculations looked like...   : /

I will also be doing some inventory and ordering new parts as well as finishing (hopefully) the V4 wikki documentation.

Lastly, I will be engaging in figuring out how to build an RF-ID cloner  (unless I forgot something ELSE I will be doing!) in order to help companies improve their security.