Nov 21 2017
In my last post, “Kleene’s Theorem,” I provided some useful background information about strings, regular languages, regular expressions, and finite automata before introducing the eponymously named theorem that has become one of the cornerstones of artificial intelligence and more specifically, natural language processing (NLP). Kleene’s Theorem tells us that regular expressions and finite state automata …
Nov 17 2017
Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician who’s groundbreaking work in the sub-field of logic known as recursion theory laid the groundwork for modern computing. While most computer programmers might not know his name or the significance of his work regarding computable functions, I am willing to bet that anyone who has ever dealt with …
Mar 04 2017
If you’ve created any forms at all using the Django web framework then you should already be familiar with Django’s CSRF middleware and the protection it provides web site’s against cross site forgery request attacks. When the middleware is active, and unless the view has this protection overridden, any form POSTed will be expected to contain …
