Shutting down services (2)
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Πλανήτης ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ Ελλάδα/Κύπρος (3)
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Services are not products. Consumers can switch between products in a snap: you’ll just eat a different bread today, or try another graphics card this time. With services you can’t do that. Sometimes I’m using exactly this definition to decide whether something I’m using or someone I’m working with is of a product-type or a service-type. Websites nowadays are basing part of their strategy (and success) on the fact that they’re not a product but ...
Κοκκινα κορδελακια (2)
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1η Δεκεμβρίου σήμερα και όπως θέλει η παράδοση εδώ και 20 χρόνια θα γεμίσει ο τόπος με κόκκινα τηλεοπτικά κορδελάκια, θα τσεκάρουμε τα στατιστικά μας για να διαπιστώσουμε ότι τα κρούσματα συνεχίσουν να πληθαίνουν, οι εταιρίες προφυλακτικών θα δώσουν δωρεαν προϊόντα κάνοντας εμμέσως διαφήμιση και μετά θα περιμένουμε 364 ημέρες για να δούμε τα αποτελέσματα...Και φυσικά δε θα λείψουν και οι πολιτικοί... Νομίζω ήταν ο κ. Αβραμόπουλος που δήλωνε χθες με ικανοποίηση ότι δεν έχει ...
sorry, waylon... (1)
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τα σημαντη(ρι)κά (2)
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a cd box instead of a boxer what do we call a cd box that we, ermmm, wear as an underpant for men? what else? a cd boxer.is this cd boxer my size? or is it a one-size-fits-all kinda thing?
Netbooks are about the users too, dummy! (10)
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Scripting News (23)
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CNet: ""If you've ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size -- it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out." To which I say -- well hmm. I think the first part is right. And you will use your netbook every day, for about an hour or so, sounds just right. Inbetween things. Kind of the way you use an iPhone, but for people ...
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vanlandw said:
CNet are idiots. Everybody that has seen my EEE instantly has been drawn to it mostly because of it's size. I use mine for hours on end with no problems, but keep in mind I'm a little mofo.
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Rex Pechler said:
a proper response to that cnet article... netbooks aren't a bad idea at all. ...I want one!
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Darko said:
Looks like I'm ABUSING my netbook then :)
Fedora 10 (2)
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Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis (42)
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If you're like most people, you don't really know what's going on with the economy. You know there's something to do with loans and payments and what not, but not much else. Mint (the financial management app) and Wallstats (the guy who does the Death and Taxes poster) put together a "visual guide to the financial crisis" - or a flow chart, rather - to clear up some of those cloudy details. It goes back ...
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Colin said:
finally, the crisis broken down the way I needed it! If only the solution were really so simple.
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Mo said:
must see, don't really know what's going on with the economy or even if u do know :)
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Moah said:
Again, who doesn't like pretty flow charts? Have I mentioned I love oversimplified explanation of complicated problems? Actually this one is not that simplified. I love that HGTV shows like 'Flip that house' are part of the problem.
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Mike said:
The quotes are fantastic.
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Yann said:
I like the Quote from GW Bush : "We got a big problem!" indeed!
Diversity in recommender systems: sketch of a bibliography (3)
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I have been arguing on this blog that while everyone knows diversity is a desirable property of recommender systems, there has been little work on the topic. To make my claim precise, I decided to list the papers addressing both recommender systems and diversity. I mean this list to be complete. L. McGinty, B. Smyth, On the Role of Diversity in Conversational Recommender Systems, in: Proc. ICCBR 2003, 2003. Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph ...
Fedora 10 release party στη Θεσσαλονίκη (1)
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(In English) Ακολουθούμε την παράδοση των Fedora release parties. Με αφορμή το Fedora 10 που βγαίνει στον αέρα σε μερικές ημέρες, βρισκόμαστε μαζί λινουξάδες του χωριού και των περιχώρων για να γνωριστούμε, να λύσουμε απορίες, να δούμε τα νεότερα από το leading edge του Linux. Σε καμιά βδομάδα λοιπόν ο Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης (ο ήρωας πίσω από το σούπερ-επιτυχές Serres installfest) οργανώνει το Fedora 10 release party στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Θα έχουμε παρουσίαση των πλούσιων τεχνικών χαρακτηριστικών ...
Mobile Semantic Web (1)
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Το Semantic Web στο κινητό μας;Ισως ακούγεται λίγο τραβηγμένο, αλλά αυτό είναι το όραμα που παρουσίασε στο πρόσφατο διεθνές συνέδριο για τον σημασιολογικό ιστό ένας από τους "πρωτεργάτες" του, ο Ora Lassila που είναι Research Fellow στο Nokia Research Center.Στην παρουσίαση του Lassila (Does Your Mobile Device Need to be Socially Aware? A Semantic Web Perspective) παρουσιάζεται ο συνδυασμός του semantic web με social applications - δηλαδή το μέλλον των εφαρμογών της κινητής τηλεφωνίας.Ποσο μακρινό ...
Latent Semantic Analysis in Ruby (4)
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I’ve had lots of requests for a Ruby version to follow up my Latent Semantic Analysis in Python article. So I’ve rewritten the code and article for Ruby. I wrote LSA from scratch this time and test driven so it has some subtle differences from the Python version. What is LSA? Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is [...]
The Napoleon Dynamite Problem (2)
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This week’s New York Times Magazine features an article by Clive Thompson about the Netflix Prize. The Netflix Prize, sponsored by the Netflix movie rental company, is perhaps the best marketing stunt I’ve seen in the history of machine learning: The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences. Improve it enough and you win one (or more) ...
Accounting for Variation in Variables Between- and Within- Groups (1)
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Data Miners Blog (0)
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Recently, I had occasion to learn about fixed effects and random effects models (as well as the larger subject known as hierchical or multi-level modeling) in the context of analyzing patient longitudinal data. This posting is about one particular question that interested me in this work: For a given variable, how much of the variation in the values is due to within-group effects versus how much is due to between-group effects.For the longitudinal patient data, ...
NY Times on the Netflix Prize (2)
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Hacking NetFlix (0)
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The NY Times took a look at Netflix's Cinematch algorithm and the Netflix Prize contest, If You Liked This, Sure to Love That. The article is an interesting look at the competitors and the science of computerized recommendations. Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for the Netflix Prize. Amazingly, Bertoni has deduced that this single movie is causing 15 percent of his remaining error rate; or to put it another way, if ...
Recommender systems: where are we headed? (5)
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Daniel Tunkelang comments on the recent progress in collaborative filtering: (…) the machine learning community, much like the information retrieval community, generally prefers black box approaches, (…) If the goal is to optimize one-shot recommendations, they are probably right. But I maintain that the process of picking a movie, like most information seeking tasks, is inherently interactive, (…) I disagree with him. Even for non-interactive recommendations, the Machine Learning community is off-track for two reasons: ...
Oops - Facebook Loses Email Notification Settings for Some Users (4)
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While Facebook has experienced explosive growth over the past year, stories of technical issues resulting in lost user data have been rare. Facebook’s engineering team has done a great job building scalable and reliable systems on the whole. However, some users have received updates from Facebook this week that their email notification settings have been lost. Some users whose settings were lost, like Rob Spectre, report that now all their email notifications are by default ...
Google SearchWiki: An Interesting Take on PIM (1)
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Google launched SearchWiki today–I hadn’t realized it was pre-launch when I blogged about it a few weeks ago. Here is their official description: Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove ...
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Download Google's weekly influenza-like illness (ILI) estimates for the United States in plain text or CSV format. Data is provided for each individual state, the nine influenza surveillance regions, and the entire United States.url: http://www.google...Shared by amarkos (3)Contribute comment
