Chessify is a multi-service chess platform. Since I am not registered with I cannot say much about it. But a single feature of their phone app is really amazing: it allows to take photos of chess diagrams (printed or screen) and converts them into FEN (Forsyth-Edwards-Notation). This is a standard for machine readable description of…
In meinem viel gelesenen Leitfaden zum Archivieren von Webseiten hatte ich das Firefoxplugin ScrapBook X zum Anfertigen von Privatkopien auf dem heimischen Rechner empfohlen. Das ging immer nur mit Firefox und seit geraumer Zeit nur noch mit dessen Fork Palemoon, weil das Mutterprogramm die XUL-Schnittstelle abgestellt hatte. Der Nachfolger WebscrapBook desselben Entwicklers (Danny Lin) steckte…
Today I finally released the latest build of my archive.pl script. Due to its massive changes I decided to increase the main version, although there is no incompatibility to prior version calls. The main purpose of archive.pl is to store sets of URLs in the Internet Archive and store an index of them as Atom…
This is the first entry in a series of blog posts that aim to investigate how my biblatex-archaeology package interferes with software commonly used by its target audience. Since v2.2 was declared feature complete the objective of v2.3’s development is to enhance usability. JabRef is a very common reference manager in the LaTeΧ world. As…
Today a new version of my Perl script archive.pl has been released (version 1.8). There are three new features: The resulting index page can now automatically get posted to a WordPress blog. The Internet Archive has introduced a request limit (15 requests per minute). archive.pl therefore delays archiving to a reasonable extend (10 seconds as…
Good news! Yesterday version 2.2 of my LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology was released, with which it comes close to feature completeness. There are no new features on my to-do list, only some minor improvements of existing features and better documentation. Unfortunately there was a huge delay in upgrading, and since the release of biblatex 3.14 biblatex-archaeology…
Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, a well-known AI critic, played a chess game against a program by Richard Greenblatt.
Vorbemerkung zur Publikation 2015 Struktur des ent-files Ergebnisse Legende zum Ausdruck Anmerkungen Vorbemerkung zur Publikation 2015 1998 nahm ich (I. B.) an einer Einführung in das von Irwin Scollar entwickelte Bonn Archaeological Software Package (BASP, auch als WinBASP) unter Leitung von PD Dr. Frank Siegmund teil. Zusammen mit der hier als Mitautorin genannten…