Archive for December, 2008


Using Dual Monitors with Remote Desktop

December 17th, 2008

I am always looking up how to use Dual Monitors with Remote Desktop. Instead of searching the internet every time I work from home, I am just going to post it on my blog. At least then I will know where to find it.

Who knows, maybe someone else will stumble upon. It is these false hopes that the entire blogosphere is made of.

Anyways, all you need to do to have multiple monitor in Vista using Remote Desktop is to enter the following command in the command prompt.

Mstsc /span

Genetic Algorithms

December 14th, 2008

Several months ago, I started to gain an interest in Machine Learning after reading several posts at Onionesque Reality. This lead me to start watching an Online Machine Learning course at Stanford. I haven’t listened to the entire set of lectures yet, but hopefully I will have time to finish them in the new year.

Recently, an old co-worker linked to an applet which used genetic algorithms to design a dune buggy. Genetic Algorithms seem to be a very interesting way for machines to learn. Although Genetic Algorithms don’t always converge to the global minimum of a problem, it seems to have a wide set of practical applications.

I came across this youtube video which shows a genetic algorithm at work.