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Nov
21st
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Be a JavaOne Rock Star The JavaOne call for papers is now open Speaking at JavaOne is fun, but also a lot of work. Here are some images from last year (courtesy of flickr):
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Tim Bray on solving the economic crisis

For reasons I will not go into, this quote feels very satisfying today:

Solution to economic crisis: sack everyone who has an MBA. (Tim Bray)
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Restructuring The Times So The New York Times Company is now worth less than it paid for the disastrous Boston Globe. It has cut its dividend to save cash, which - PR protestations aside - could lead to a family revolt,…
Nov
20th
Thu
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How to speed up retrieval without any index?

John Cook gives us a nice recipe to quickly find all squares in a set of integers. For example, given 3, 4, 9, 15, you want your algorithm to identify 4 and 9 as squares.

The naïve way to solve…
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Links for 2008 11 20
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Links for 2008 11 20
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Links for 2008 11 20
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Links for 2008 11 20
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Finding task boundaries in search logs There has been more talk lately, it seems to me, on moving away from stateless search where each search is independent and toward a search engine that pays attention to your previous searches when it…
Nov
19th
Wed
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Why am I not work on world hunger? My wife sometimes asks me why I am not working on important problems like world hunger. Instead, I am one of the top world expert in tag-cloud drawing. I am sure she thinks that I just fool…
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See Mediastorm Come see Brian Storm, proprietor of the much-loved MediaStorm at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism tomorrow, Thursday, starting at 6:30. It’s open to the public but space is limited, so sign…
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Strands.com on the Nokia! As you know, Strands recently launched the  iPhone and touch mobile version of Strands.com.   You like it, you really like it!   Some of you said “Hey, what about us Nokia folks!”  Well, today
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Detecting spam just from HTTP headers You have to love research work that takes some absurdly simple idea and shows that it works much better than anyone would have guessed.

Steve Webb, James Caverlee, and Calton Pu had one of these…
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The web-wide social network is coming « Paying Attention

The web-wide social network is coming « Paying Attention

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Nov
18th
Tue
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Is what I do technical? We are trying to design a master degree in Information Technology. To me, this sort of program should be a professional master degree, that is, it does not lead naturally to a research career or a…