Archive for May, 2008

Project Accounting

Project accounting (sometimes referred to as job cost accounting) is the practice of creating financial reports specifically designed to track the financial progress of projects, which can then be used by managers to aid project management.
Standard accounting is primarily aimed at monitoring financial progress of organizational elements (geographical or functional departments, divisions and the enterprise […]

Budget and Sales Forecast Report

A programmer will never start to create a program without a well-defined requirement. The same thing as what most business owners usually does, having a business plan before they actually start their business. A clear and concise business plan would take their business where they want it to. And of course the enabler of getting there […]

Can we reverse engineer our brain?

Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. With this in mind, if we are able to reverse engineer the cell, can we reverse engineer the brain? The answer probable is yes if we are lucky. But I […]

The Nanny Invasion of IT

These are jokes compiled by several IT Professionals originally for mom experts:
Joke #1:
Abaper: Can you tell me the business process?
Nanny: Customer Place and Order, we ship the product, we process payment, then issue invoice, then issue delivery note and then goods issuance.
Joke #2:
CEO: You don’t deserve a Secretary, I’ll just hire EcoQuest Intl if I want […]

Accounting Software Efficiency

Accounting Software Efficiency is a measure on how the software performs and meets the expectation of the client. Several Factors should be considered in calculating the efficiency of the software and these are as follows:

Ease of Use
Number of Downtimes in a particular period
What other users has to say about the software
Cost of post implementation maintenance
Availability […]

Cell: the Ultimate Basic Machine that Incomprehensible to Humans

Cells as we all know is the most basic biological machine that enables life to thrive in our world. And yet until today, just like what I have been mentioning over and over, we still know so little about it. It is in our modern time that we are slowly beginning to tinker with it […]

Translating English into First-Order Logic

The translation of English to First-Order Logic is also a major development effort in the creation of Intelligent Systems. The first requirement in order to carry out this task efficiently is that one must be an expert in this domain(First-Order Logic). Secondly, one must be good at formulating Logic. It is not really a skill […]

Spell Checker by Edit Distance Method

Edit Distance is another popular method to check the spelling of a word. Edit Distance is defined as the number of operations required to transform one string into another string. This is basis of why the other previous spell checking algorithm that I mentioned in my previous post came into existent.
The operations could be an insertion, […]

Longest Common Subsequence

One of the most common problems in a Sentence Analyzer Software which is a part of the Intelligent System is the misspelled word in a sentence. As mentioned in my previous post, there are 2 methods to correct the error. These are the Longest Common Subsequence(LCS)  and the Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognition. Let us focus now on the […]

Evolution of thought

It is curious to note how inventors, scientists, mathematicians, and others applaud those few and deservedly renowned persons who have “truly original thoughts.” Note the emphasis is on “truly original” thoughts.
We begin life imitating our caretakers, subsequently going through the educational system and dependent upon our interests and intellectual development, learn more or less from […]

More about Cells

Our fascination about cells and how important cells are to us and the whole civilization has been visualize. David Bolinsky prepared an animated video that explains how cells work from inside and out based on how they currently understand it.
I also enjoyed the video although I am so sad that I may never ever get to […]