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Beta != Buggy
via Nick Bradbury by Nick Bradbury on May 29, 2008
... coding. But it's also a bad thing, because it's flat-out impossible to test desktop software with every possible combination of hardware and software that exists in the wild. I have to release a public beta in order to uncover bugs involving specific configurations, but quite often users who encounter these problems never report them - they simply uninstall the software and move on.
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Machines versus humans at Google
via Geeking with Greg by Greg Linden on May 29, 2008
A curious revelation from Googler Peter Norvig appears in a recent post by Anand Rajaraman:[To execute a web search] a subset of documents is identified based on the presence of the user's keywords. Then, these documents are ranked by a very fast algorithm that combines ... 200 [pre-computed] signals in-memory using a proprietary formula.[This] appears to be made-to-order for machine learning...
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Academic Research Mashups?
via iLibrarian by Ellyssa on May 29, 2008
The arXiv repository from Cornell University Library which provides open access to 479,931 research manuscripts in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics, has issued an API. It will be interesting to see what types of mashups are created with this massive amount of quality content.“The purpose of the arXiv API is to allow programmatic access to the...
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Best Yahoo! Pipes Creations
via iLibrarian by Ellyssa on May 29, 2008
If you’ve ever wondered what types of mashup applications you can build using Yahoo! Pipes, you’ll want to check out The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List from ReadWriteWeb. This best list compiles the top mashups created by mixing RSS feeds from various websites and sources. Some of their picks include:Bestselling Books - The bestselling books at Amazon.com, updated hourly.FriendFeed...
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Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools
via roger的鲜果推荐 by Mike Gunderloy on May 29, 2008
There’s a new entrant in the online drawing tools market: Flowchart.com. Though they make their pitch as a flowcharting tool, they’re really a general-purpose shapes-and-connectors application, along the lines of Visio or OmniGraffle. Their UI is largely JavaScript-based, but seems reasonably responsive. In addition to creating drawings from templates, objects, and clipart, they offer a fair...
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MBA = 超強人脈 + 漂亮履歷 + 流利英文 + 商業直覺？
via 酪梨壽司的日記 by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
...多苦主來信，我都直接建議自行上網孤狗或回家擲茭，省下不少時間。當然啦，偶爾也有例外。正在讀法律系的讀者「L同學」留言給我，說他是系上少數沒有打算考國家考試的稀有動物，反而對申請商學院有濃厚興趣。某日他參加社團活動回來，心靈受創，有三個問題在腦中揮之不去：...(繼續閱讀)
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HP 2133 Mini-Note（Linux 版）：第一印象
via Taiwan 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
... HP 能夠儘快強化 SLED 10 在 HP 2133 上的易用性。就現階段而言，如果你不熟悉 Linux，還是買 Windows 版比較妥當。如果你熟悉 Linux，或許買回來後重新安裝自己熟悉的系統（例如 Ubuntu）會比解決 SLED 10 的問題更節省時間。延伸閱讀：用 Eee PC 做簡報；用 Eee PC 做簡報（實戰篇）。
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Pictures from paradise
via Daniel Lemire's blog by Daniel Lemire on May 28, 2008
Kamel is back from Madeira (Portugual) where he presented our paper Collaborative OLAP with Tag Clouds: Web 2.0 OLAP Formalism and Experimental Evaluation. Madeira is too far from Montreal when you are old and decrepit like me. But he took some great pictures of the place.I was there last year and it was great:
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Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on May 28, 2008
For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search.Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interestto all of us, particularly one that takes advantage of long-awaited and much-hyped semantic technologies. But no matter how much progress has been made, most of us are still underwhelmed by the results.In head-to-head comparisons with Google, the results...
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The Basics of Press Releases
via PoeWar.com Writer's Resource Center by John Hewitt on May 28, 2008
This is day three of my discussion of, Write for the Web! A Beginner’s Guide to Writing on the Internet. This e-book was created by the men behind Men With Pens. They wanted me to take a look at it and give them my thoughts, so I am sharing my thoughts with you.One of the topics MWP discusses is writing press releases. Press releases can make for a nice little income if you like working in...
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