Isabel Drost: Apache Mahout 0.6 released
As of Monday, February 6th a new Apache Mahout version was released. The new package features Lots of performance improvments: A new LDA implementation using Collapsed Variational Bayes 0th Derivative...
View ArticleJames Duncan: A Few D800 Conversation Points
Inevitably, there’s been a lot of chatter about the Nikon D800 today and it ranges all over the spectrum. In addition to showing up all over the web, it’s also invaded my inbox. “Dude! There’s so many...
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James Duncan: TED on iTunes U
TED has put together a curated collection of talks for students, educators, and life-long learners and made them available through iTunes U. With topic areas like Creative Problem Solving and Climate...
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Bryan Pendleton: Six interesting papers
Here's some brief observations about some papers. The topics are broadly related, but the actual papers aren't really related; I just happened to be reading them around the same time.The papers in...
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Edward J. Yoon: Graph computing with Apache Hama
Today, the Pregel-like graph programming framework has been committed into TRUNK. Interfaces are not elegant yet, but I'm sure that Apache Hama will provide best performance than others e.g., Giraph,...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Dominoes
Alex Russell: @glazou being entirely reasonable in the face of vendor-driven CRAZY (implementing other people’s prefixes): glazman.org/weblog/dotclea… Via @phae. Alex, I think you need to move up the...
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Jeroen Reijn: Get in control with Spring Insight!
Ever wondered what your application was doing? Why that specific page was so slow? I've asked myself this question numerous times and always had to change some log level or attach a profiler to get...
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Isabel Drost: Note to self - Java heap analysis
As I keep searching for those URLs over and over again linking them here. When running into JVM heap issues (an out of memory exception is a pretty sure sign, so can be the program getting slower and...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-02-09
Blank Canvas Script Handler : ‘This extension lets you customize web sites by running bits of JavaScript on pages. It’s kind of an unofficial Greasemonkey for Chrome, and supports many of the GM_*...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The pros and cons of image watermarks
Don Peters, who makes his living as a lawyer, gives his (not legal) opinion on whether or not it makes sense to watermark images online. Everyone’s experience is different, but as much as I’ve been...
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Christian Grobmeier: (Google) Dart at the Entwickler Magazin
Today the german Entwickler Magazin has published a new article on Dart. It’s even on the cover. Unfortunately the name is “Google Dart”, while it should be only “Dart”. But anyway… I think the article...
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Bryan Pendleton: Dungeons and Dragons retrospective
Although it could use some copy-editing, this series of articles on the original Dungeons & Dragons history is a quick and interesting read:The Ghosts of D&D: PastThe State of D&D:...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-02-10
An Irishman’s Diary – The Irish Times – Thu, Feb 09, 2012: A History Of Ireland In 100 Excuses : ‘4. A shortage of natural resources.’ very good (tags: history ireland excuses trevelyan)
View ArticleJames Duncan: Made better in Japan
Twenty years of recession have changed Japan, but in the process have created a pursuit of perfection of all things that’s attention grabbing. (via kottke.org) Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Thuderbolt one year later
The first year of Thunderbolt has been a slow one. The connection is full of promise but it seems that all the peripheral makers are sorting out how to implement it best. Here’s hoping year two is...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Maximizing your happiness on the camera upgrade path
With all the gear talk of late—always a common thread among photographers—Ann Torrance reminds us that our relationship with our gear is a long term one and we should look at what we want out of our...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-11
Wise words from @stskeeps #fosdem talk. Work together on commodity layer. Why do mobile companies find this so hard? http://t.co/FySWTU51 # Agreed with @stskeeps but thought mention of Mer project...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-11
Wise words from @stskeeps #fosdem talk. Work together on commodity layer. Why do mobile companies find this so hard? http://t.co/FySWTU51 # Agreed with @stskeeps but thought mention of Mer project...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-11
Wise words from @stskeeps #fosdem talk. Work together on commodity layer. Why do mobile companies find this so hard? http://t.co/FySWTU51 # Agreed with @stskeeps but thought mention of Mer project...
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