Various Link Artists, Vol. 2/11

some nice web-stuff (local file access, univesal data apis) plus security tools (android map, nat-traversal); also, the odd video ;-) last, but not least, really cool paper on reinforcement learning with interaction. ## Web Stuff * Two cool hacks by the always interesting David Humphrey: * The Joys of Same-Origin Files Access, where he just drops a cool audio wave form visualization, as a demo for drag'n'drop file access in the browser * Unicode Animation in HTML * OData as the Web's uniform data API? -- I particularly liked the common query language. ## Sweet Video * Sesame Street's iPogo does anything * Live-view from the ISS. I understand this is not always working, depending on downlink capacity and such. Check out NASA's Multimedia Index for more info. ## Machine Learning for the Real-World * Marc pointed out work by Brad Knox on interactive learning with reinforcement learning methods -- I did a partial summary ## Tools * JavaConnect, a seamless Java Bridge for SmallTalk. Works by sending message between two running VMs -- not as direct as Scala, but still nice. via @SergeStinkwich * Samy's AndroidMap looks up where you AP is * PWNat connects two machines, both behind NATs without external infrastructure