“The future is already here. …” *
Thanks to S. “Tetherless” Keshav, who gave a talk here today in HP Labs, for giving me a pointer to this promised Two-Terabyte Memory Card. This could change some of the trade-offs in designing distributed systems over unreliable, intermittent networks.
From Computer Magazine – In Defense of PowerPoint comes an interesting approach to giving conference presentations:
conference presenters who merely recapitulate the contents of their paper place themselves in danger of putting their audience to sleep, particularly straight after lunch. A more effective approach uses the presentation to persuade the majority of the audience to actually [...]
John Siracusa has an written an excellent article on what, in his opinion, makes a good desktop shell, concentrating mostly on the Macintosh finder.
As an experiment I have set up my Windows XP folder options to to match his recommendations as much as possible.
In the folder context menu:
Do view->thumbnails in each folder.
Turn off [...]
My programming language trajectory has been BASIC → FORTRAN → Pascal → C → C++ → Java with a few diversions such as Perl and Python. On the way I have become a firm convert to object-oriented programming, and as such I always found my lack of knowledge in Smalltalk was a big [...]
GeoSoft – Geotechnical Software Services has some nice looking GPLed Java software.
Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Unsupervised Feature Extraction
Overview of some thechniques for dimensionality reduction.
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Update: The above HTML version is missing parts of some formulas. To see them see the compressed postscript version.
Lots of raw data of congressional roll call votes on Charles Stewart’s congressional data page. I’ve got some ideas of some data mining I want to try out on this data.
Twelve years today. Wow!
We treated ourselves to a night at the Stanford Court Hotel on Nob Hill. Last night had a nice meal at Fournou’s Ovens where we particularly enjoyed the wine, Panther Creek, Freedom Hill, 1999.
This was somewhat of a contrast to John Edward anniversary meal at Wendy’s earlier this week. Well he [...]
