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Spelugx's Cave |
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Spelugx on
talk buffy,
360,
DNA hub,
book of the future,
collective,
iCan,
ww2, or
get writing.
Spelugx in h2g2's
brunel,
alabaster,
goo, or
plain.
Salve Unknown Visitor, have you written for the edited guide yet? Welcome to my cave, which is set in the impressive surroundings on a hill side with a maximum visual magnitude of near 6! Although the south does show the light dome of the nearby city...
IRL I am a poor dweller of that city and suffer for it. Badly. Hello, I'm Spelugx. I'm 18, and I've just finished four A-levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry. I am reading Mathematics this year at Cambridge. When I'm not studying hard(!), I'm messing about with computers. Some of my slightly weaker skills are rudimentary school Latin and French, and art and design. And I'm a dreaful Perl programmer. You can either leave a public or a private message for me. I have a small website where I've got some DNA related stuff. I also have a personal website about cabbages.
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Names supplied to me by tuc fortuneswell, Dax is updating his pageProgramming Projects - Hoobot - The original vision of the hoobot was an autonomous agent performing various analysis tasks on h2g2. So far the hoobot has only existed as some perl code, which has since been expanded to WWW::DNA. The original version used HTML::TreeBuilder, this has been largely replaced by other means.
- WWW::DNA - A set of perl modules (the next step in the evolution of the Hoobot) for programmatically accessing dna pages. Based around a html/xml parser (XML::LibXML) it allows for easy extraction of key data from pages. Also encludes modules for handling SSO.
- DNA-Proxy
- Petunia - A system which comes close to realising the original vision of the Hoobot project and the original integral account. Currently it supports the ace statistics. The edited guide statistics will get migrated Real Soon Now.
- Whale - It's big, it's blubbery, it's also in free-fall and rather enjoying the wind. It's the next stage from Petunia and 'newusers'; it merges my existing technology for parsing pages, with a full relational database system with OO features, to give far more powerful data mining abilities.
- Sine - A small project to build yet another toy operating system. This is the platform for my craziest perl idea yet -- embedding perl into a kernel.
- Arcsine - A solver for cryptarithms. Not trivial.
- Integral::Auth - A small system for cookie-based authentication on my website.
Geek Code
----BEGIN H2G2 CODE BLOCK----
Version 1.1 (modified)
RGB>$ Y>+ N+++*>+ SA-B+(>$++)G++P<+ A++>+++
P<++: L++* M*(--)(---)(+) s(+)>++ V+++>$ E+*>++
PR++(+) p+<++ a- B++>+++(-) TV- r++ D T(+) nh+
C+>++ m>+ t+ LD-- v++ E+
-----END H2G2 CODE BLOCK-----
This isn't the standard version 1.1, as it uses some of the extensions suggested for version 2.0. I wouldn't try feeding this though an automated decoder. Here's my out of date Geek Code, I should get round to updating this soon.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GM d- s-:- a--- C++ UL++>+++ P+++ L++ E W+++ N+ o? K? w++@ O? M V? PS PE-
Y PGP++ t+@>* 5 X? R? tv++ b++ DI+ D+ G e-* h! !r y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Volunteer Positions I'm a volunteer here on h2g2, mainly for the shiny badges, but it's also a way that I can contribute to the community. In addition to my four official volunteer positions, I also belong to some clubs, I'm a BBCi Tester, and I'm a 'Bugfinder'. I'm a fan of Whoami?'s personal space. As you can see I have far too much spare time, as I'm participating in four volunteer groups, whilst1 doing 5 AS-levels and planning to do 4 A-levels in a few months time2. ACEs3 The ACEs are an important part of making the site friendly and 'sticky'. We try and greet every newcomer to the site, and help them find the niche where they can contribute the best. There's ACEs who are members of all sorts of groups and they make sure that all the conversations run smoothy, and that everyone gets on together. In other words, they are 'catalysts' who encourage productive debate. | Gurus4 The Gurus are a bunch of crazy, dedicated people who watch all the help pages and help researchers with all those tricky technical problems on h2g2 (and off h2g2 too). | Scouts The Scouts help to manage the edited guide review forums, primarily Peer Review where they get to pick the best entries (with the best community response) to be sent onwards in the process to the subeditors. | Subeditors The Subeditors do the hard work of making sure that all the entries in the edited guide have the same high standards of presentation, spelling and grammar. They tend to work somewhat behind the scenes as they duties don't require working with the community, but most do try and contact the authors of the entries they edit. |
1 This is solely to annoy whoever added this to the guidelines
2 Just because I'm planning on a Maths degree doesn't mean I can correctly figure out how many months there are to the next academic year
3 Although most people don't bother with the correct capitalisation (myself included) and call these volunteers Aces (or ace).
4 A  smiley conjures up part of our image, but we're also a bunch of  s5.
5 And  s!
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| Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Haskell, Matrices, Drinks
Oct 3, 2005
Turns out I'm back in Cambridge, I'm still writing in Haskell, and I'm still doing to boring drinks parties
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Purple, Pascal, Perl, Haskell
Jan 31, 2005
I popped back at the week end and enjoyed reading A3031949, except for the errors... Doenitz versus Dönitz. Shame about the subediting, but a really good read all the same. Nice to see h2g2 still alive. 
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'no recent postings'
Oct 14, 2004
... yet four badges.
And nothing exciting to write in this journal.
Spelugx -- beige, white and purple.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Aug 26, 2004
It's August again, and again I'm back on h2g2. This time I appear to have spent several months with a towel over my head thinking that I'm invisible (mostly to myself).
This time, however, I've finished school, passed exams, and got myself into University. Let's hope I have similar success with Whales.
spelugx - green, blue and purple
Corned Beef
Feb 18, 2004
I haven't posted here for a while now; I'm posting here now.
Spam.
(The questions really are: Is corned beef the proper thing to serve with stovies? Is it ethically/morally/plain right/wrong serve Branston pickle as a condiment for this dish?[0])
spelugx - (F82761?thread=383098)
[0] /* the following is upside down: */ Correct answers: Yes, no, maybe
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