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I must say, having been a long time CiteSeer user, Google Scholar is a real breath of fresh air. It is yet another academic search interface, although this time its done right (unlike Rexa which is waaaay too inaccurate). Its a great interface and you can actually find whatever your looking for, its quite amazing! [...]

I was very excited to find out that Python scripts can access Java APIs if you run on them Jython interpreter. Jython is a Python interpretor written in Java which some people have put to good use for fast prototyping of WEKA applications. I built a simple classifier using Jython and weka classes and everything [...]

Recently I have been playing with C#/.NET programming. I’m quite impressed with the C# language, it is definitely an improvement on C++ and Java. One of my favourite features is get/set properties. As a FIT student at Monash you are entitled to use the Microsoft Visual Studio development tools. However if this does not cover [...]

Here is a tip for making those papers easier to read. If you are using LaTeX for your documents, you may like hyperref.sty, which allows you to have hypertext like links in your LaTeX generated PDF documents.

I need to get something off my chest: DataInputStream.readFloat(), I hate you!! Today I had one of those annoying bugs pop up that are hard to chase down. I know how to read/write my binary IEEE754 floats in C (all tested and working) but my Java code is really not liking it. Turns out readFloat() [...]

Apparently you are supposed to run the etc-update command regularly to keep your Gentoo Linux system healthy. hmm. This was likely the reason for my udev dying a couple of weeks ago. I must say – I’m less impressed with Gentoo now! Oh well, emerge is still the best package management system I’ve seen so [...]

Nice! My article has been accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining

I attended Australian AI03 this week where I presented my paper. The conference was held in Perth, which is a lovely city, at the University of WA. UWA has stunning architecture. The presentation went well and I was asked a few questions from the audience

My latest paper has been accepted at the 16th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence which will be held in Perth 3-5th December. This paper is titled ‘A Case Study in Feature Invention for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using X-Ray Scatter Images’ and looks at some preliminary work using data mining on X-ray diffraction data in [...]

I have just finnished attending the Data Mining Winter School held at Monash. There was a great list of speakers presenting over the three days, including the world renouned Dr. Usama Fayyad of DigiMine (now Revenue Science/DMX Group). It really was eye opening to hear what the leaders in the field see happening in the [...]