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Stain Brain App Updated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stain Brain App Updated

I see that Procter & Gamble's Stain Brain IPhone application has been updated. Recall I described here how this is an application that has evolved over a dozen...

? Copying Is Not Theft; Saying It IS Is Spin
From Wild WebMink

? Copying Is Not Theft; Saying It IS Is Spin

A guide to spotting spin, with a charming little jingle.

1913 Tax Form
From The Eponymous Pickle

1913 Tax Form

Have seen this many times, but it is worth repeating, often. Mark Perry posts the US 1913 tax form, and comments: ' ... There were only four pages total including...

Collapse of Complex Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collapse of Complex Business Models

I agree they should be as simple as possible, but are often patched up affairs to match the expectations of those that believe in them. Clay Shirky does make some...

"Protecting Europe Against Large-Scale Cyber-Attacks"
From Schneier on Security

"Protecting Europe Against Large-Scale Cyber-Attacks"

Report from the House of Lords in the UK (pdf version).

From Computational Complexity

What Does It Meant to be Published?

I don't remember what prompted it but about a month ago I tweetedYour paper might appear on Arxiv or ECCC, be widely read and even well cited. But don't think that...

? Time Running Out
From Wild WebMink

? Time Running Out

The Digital Economy Bill second reading is tomorrow in the UK. Take action now.

NSF Review Issues
From My Biased Coin

NSF Review Issues

My understanding is that the turnaround time on NSF decisions should be approximately 6 months.  (See, for instance, their own diagram of the review process.) ...

Interesting Links 5 April 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 5 April 2010

Words matter. One set of words that come up in discussion are

Predictive Analytics as a Game Changer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics as a Game Changer

In Forbes, a short article about how a number of companies are using predictive analytics to change the game. I again do not consider this to be very new, we did...

Bayesian Information Retrieval
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayesian Information Retrieval

In the Noisy Channel: Information Retrieval using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization. Well written, good piece with many instructional background links...

Grand Unified Theory of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Grand Unified Theory of AI

In MIT News, quite intriguing, though I don't quite understand how it can be applied immediately to real problems I am acquainted with. ' .. A new approach unites...

Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization
From The Noisy Channel

Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization

Dinesh Vadhia, CEO and founder of “item search” company Xyggy, has been an active member of the Noisy Community for at least a year, and it is with pleasure that...

Best of TDWI: Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best of TDWI: Business Intelligence

Best of a number of good articles on Business Intelligence from TDWI. I have mentioned a few of these before, here they all in one piece. The download does require...

Videotaping the Shipment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Videotaping the Shipment

In StorefrontBackTalk: Discussion of an Amazon patent that videotapes a shipment box as it is filled and sealed. Then attaching a link to that video clip to the...

Simulated Car Racing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulated Car Racing

From the University of Wurzburg, simulated car demolition derby using artificial intelligence controllers. Still a believer that there is value in using gaming...

No-Link-Saturday
From Wild WebMink

No-Link-Saturday

Just a cartoon.

Twitter Predicting Movie Box Office
From The Eponymous Pickle

Twitter Predicting Movie Box Office

Good overview of social media prediction opportunities, based on the HP social computing lab paper: Predicting the Future with Social Media. Of course a Twitter...

Energy Sustainability
From My Biased Coin

Energy Sustainability

I spent an entertaining hour this afternoon listening to David MacKay of Cambridge (UK) give a talk about the Future of Energy here at Harvard.  I've mentionedAmazon...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Confit
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Confit

Looks tasty.
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