Isabel Drost: Recsys meetup Berlin
Planning a meetup in Berlin: 8 people register, a table for 14 people is booked, 16+ people arrive - all of that even if no pre-defined topic or talk is announced. Seems like building recommender...
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Isabel Drost: Teddy in Sweden
Some picture taken all the way up in northern Sweden: Those picture were taken mid-June. That means what looks like Teddy sitting in the afternoon sun actually was taken 20min before midnight some 40km...
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Bryan Pendleton: Who invented the Internet, part 94
Duncan Black makes a really good point. It wasn't so much the technology, though it was that too, it was the idea, and it isn't an idea a for-profit company would have pursued in nearly the same way....
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Bryan Pendleton: Trying to understand the evolution of finance
Although I'm far from an expert in finance, I'm unavoidably a part of the financial system. I pay my taxes; I try to support my family; I live in a country where I must, for the most part, arrange my...
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Ian Boston: OmniTI Report into OAE: Corrections
The OmniTI technical report into OAE that was written in February 2012 has finally been published on the Sakai OAE Collaboration site. It was written after a 3 day “deep dive” by Theo Schlossnagle and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Precious Reynolds and the Milwaukee Protocol
Don't miss this great story in Wired magazine: Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery. Thousands of years of medical history say that Precious should not have survived. And indeed, some of...
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Openmeetings Team: Version 2.0 of Apache OpenMeetings Incubating released!
This is our first release as Apache project and there have been major changes almost everywhere in the application.Restyled UI The UI has been refactored to have a common look and feel. Additionally...
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Jeremy Quinn: The Torch [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: The Olympic Torch relay passing through Brixton
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Bryan Pendleton: The other Eagle
When I read that Orange Coast College is selling the Alaska Eagle, their instructional big boat, which has a long, rich, and much heralded history, I was initially a bit confused. I thought they meant...
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Martijn Dashorst: That awkward moment…
When twitter is down, and you want to tweet about it… Obligatory Star Wars reference: as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Steve Loughran: Reminder to #Hadoop recruiters: do your research
It was only last week that I blogged about failing Hadoop recruiter approaches.Key take-aways wereDo your research from the publicly available data.Use the graph, don't abuse it.Never try to phone...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-26
Universal properties of mythological networks – Abstract – EPL (Europhysics Letters) – IOPscience : Abstract: As in statistical physics, the concept of universality plays an important, albeit...
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Adrien Grand: Wow, LZ4 is fast!
I’ve been doing some experiments with LZ4 recently and I must admit that I am truly impressed. For those not familiar with LZ4, it is a compression format from the LZ77 family. Compared to other...
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Edward J. Yoon: Some Benchmarks of Hadoop and Hama on Oracle's BDA
The I/O performance of HDFS with TestDFSIO. % hadoop jar hadoop-test-0.20.2-cdh3u3b.jar TestDFSIO -write -nrFiles 10 -fileSize 1000 ----- TestDFSIO ----- : write Date & time: Thu Jul 26 18:50:11...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Jettison 1.3.2 is out
Jettison 1.3.2 has been released this week, please check the Download page.Those who try to customize the way Jettison works should find it easier to override various Jettison classes, for example, in...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-27
This park’s life – The Irish Times – Thu, Jul 26, 2012 : Great article about Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Europe’s largest enclosed urban park (more than twice the size of New York’s Central Park, in fact)....
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Bryan Pendleton: Networking: theory and practice
I came across two nice papers recently with some interesting synergy. First, on the theory side, BBN's Craig Partridge offers his suggestions for Forty Data Communications Research Questions. Each...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-28
@sw_trains delayed a second day on weybridge to London route. Today temporary signalling problems. Olympic-sized crowd on the platform. # @sw_trains fourth day of delays in a row. Going for gold with...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-28
@sw_trains delayed a second day on weybridge to London route. Today temporary signalling problems. Olympic-sized crowd on the platform. # @sw_trains fourth day of delays in a row. Going for gold with...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Book: Search Patterns
I got the book months ago during FOSDEM - the O’Reilly book table always is a pretty dangerous place as a meeting point for me: Search Patterns - Design for Discovery is one of those small, deceivingly...
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