<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jackeown/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Decision Tree ---> Neural Network Translation!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I mentioned this months ago, but then never uploaded the code once I got it working!: Have fun with this program I wrote to convert decision trees into neural networks:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/machinelearning/@jackeown/decision-tree-neural-network-translation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/machinelearning/@jackeown/decision-tree-neural-network-translation</guid><category><![CDATA[machinelearning]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:13:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where my followers at?]]></title><description><![CDATA[So I haven't posted in a long time, barring one post from yesterday... please comment or upvote this post if you see it just to give me an idea of how many of my followers actually are real people and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/meta/@jackeown/where-my-followers-at</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/meta/@jackeown/where-my-followers-at</guid><category><![CDATA[meta]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:05:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep Q-Network for the Game 2048!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I made a neural network to play the game 2048! Read about it on my blog! Check out the code on github!]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/statistics/@jackeown/deep-q-network-for-the-game-2048</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/statistics/@jackeown/deep-q-network-for-the-game-2048</guid><category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:12:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price of Steem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dude...steem to the moon apparently...$6.73]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@jackeown/price-of-steem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@jackeown/price-of-steem</guid><category><![CDATA[steem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:02:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steemit Sucks! Here's how to fix it!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think steemit sucks. What do you think? It isn't worth my time to troll through the trash to find the gems. Steemit is full of bots and spam. I came to steemit hoping it would be like reddit. I hoped]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@jackeown/steemit-sucks-here-s-how-to-fix-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@jackeown/steemit-sucks-here-s-how-to-fix-it</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 06:14:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Byteball Poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[Byteball is a cryptocurrency which has recieved very little attention due to a lack of advertisement. I recently posted this post on reddit the other day asking why byteball is so much less popular than]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@jackeown/byteball-poll</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@jackeown/byteball-poll</guid><category><![CDATA[cryptocurrency]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 01:27:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detecting Fake Amazon Reviews --> Detecting spammy steemit posts!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm currently taking a class in college called Natural Language Processing. In this class, we learn about how to process text and understand the meaning of text using statistical methods and large datasets.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@jackeown/detecting-fake-amazon-reviews-detecting-spammy-steemit-posts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@jackeown/detecting-fake-amazon-reviews-detecting-spammy-steemit-posts</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:30:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin FUD...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intentional F.U.D. Alert... FUD stands for fear, uncertainty and doubt and people usually bash people for spreading them in order to crash the price of things so they can get in at a lower price or recoup]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@jackeown/bitcoin-fud</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@jackeown/bitcoin-fud</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:45:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FilthyFrank, h3h3, Idubbbz, etc...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Warning...will waste all of your time... I was just introduced to the following wonderful youtube channels...sorted by decreasing levels of cringe. (h3h3 is my favorite though) Here are a few of my favorite]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/video/@jackeown/filthyfrank-h3h3-idubbbz-etc</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/video/@jackeown/filthyfrank-h3h3-idubbbz-etc</guid><category><![CDATA[video]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:10:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e5uT4wYXpv7xKGjECpfqKyexqR5fzDWSzbx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoinHive Javascript Monero Mining!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mine Monero using Javascript in browser! Screenshot of their website: You can include their javascript into your page and make 70% of the mining that is done in the background of everyone who views your]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/monero/@jackeown/coinhive-javascript-monero-mining</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/monero/@jackeown/coinhive-javascript-monero-mining</guid><category><![CDATA[monero]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:23:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9RTqgyyu8sYxvcan6Y6RQ9VEa3g3GXxhjf4ErpznkikD9UhmEkZzqVig59L14LaqvM5RWzAAES?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool thing about Special Relativity]]></title><description><![CDATA[So today I had the following question: If photons have no mass, then how why can't they escape the gravitational pull of a black hole? So basically the answer I got was pretty cool and comes down to the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/physics/@jackeown/cool-thing-about-special-relativity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/physics/@jackeown/cool-thing-about-special-relativity</guid><category><![CDATA[physics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:10:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Converting Decision trees into Neural Networks.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just wrote a python program to convert decision trees into neural networks. The idea is pretty much described in this paper: It was really fun and I hope to put up the code onto github once I do some]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/machinelearning/@jackeown/converting-decision-trees-into-neural-networks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/machinelearning/@jackeown/converting-decision-trees-into-neural-networks</guid><category><![CDATA[machinelearning]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:07:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kloster's Pen Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[My roommate posed this problem to me about a week ago. I posted it on math.stackexchange.com and got a response which led me to look up some numbers on the Online Encyclopedia for Integer Sequences (OEIS).]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/57yngb-kloster-s-pen-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/57yngb-kloster-s-pen-problem</guid><category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:59:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EfcLDC2cS9n3a6zqTb54pUg3qK7kxX84QXX7p7PBv9sTwgbf4UNq8XosdWvATv5o8evAw6A6J5a89G4F92aFgyFki9WKG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kloster's Pen Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[My roommate posed the following problem to me last week: If you have M pens, each of a different color, and each of which have N parts, then how many ways can you put them back together so that at least]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/math/@jackeown/kloster-s-pen-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/math/@jackeown/kloster-s-pen-problem</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:26:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluetooth Hack!]]></title><description><![CDATA[BlueBorne: A very recently discovered security flaw in most implementations of bluetooth means that people can hack bluetooth-enabled windows,android, and linux devices with ease from 32 feet away.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/security/@jackeown/bluetooth-hack</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/security/@jackeown/bluetooth-hack</guid><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:12:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e2KUvtbfy1vqGv3yBwFTMRNjYwNCVcL964v?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple Counting Problem Solution!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posed the following question: How many ways can you place 20 identical balls into 4 unique bins? The answer is actually pretty cool and easy if you think about it in a certain light. Let '0']]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/simple-counting-problem-solution</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/simple-counting-problem-solution</guid><category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:01:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple Counting Question]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many ways are there to place 20 generic balls into 4 unique bins? This is a simple combinatorics question and I'll post a cool way of thinking about the answer tomorrow...leave any guesses in the comments]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/math/@jackeown/simple-counting-question</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/math/@jackeown/simple-counting-question</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:47:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AlphaGo Game 15-min Summary]]></title><description><![CDATA[AlphaGo Game 1 This is a 15-minute summary I just watched of the first game played by DeepMind's AlphaGo program which beat the world's best human player in the game of "Go". There were a few]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@jackeown/alphago-game-15-min-summary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@jackeown/alphago-game-15-min-summary</guid><category><![CDATA[programming]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eFXBVTPP4otgMWUeqtzmP4ULhcZpsoLS6kW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems with Relativism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Problems with Relativism I just now saw the following post: This is the latest article I've seen about this concept called "relativism" which essentially states that people can disagree about]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@jackeown/problems-with-relativism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@jackeown/problems-with-relativism</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2017 04:18:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asymptotic Notation for Algorithm Runtime!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asyptotic Notation for Analyzing Algorithm Runtime! (source: apelbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/yaacovapelbaumbigoplot.jpg) Often times it is useful to analyze the time it takes to run algorithms in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/asymptotic-notation-for-algorithm-runtime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/mathematics/@jackeown/asymptotic-notation-for-algorithm-runtime</guid><category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackeown]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEqKFcQi5T6yxoLWHuviYkGCxqMn3uYnH2BRPTBLAMx4tu7C9GNS5aDdJJkBWLMjFs9g98QS3AsJxx8sBYCCUezLoVVt5t?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>