The Taste Blog

Nov
12th

Wed

As the Internet grows, so does Google In two insightful posts, “The Omnigoogle” and “The cloud’s Chrome lining”, Nick Carr cleanly summarizes how Google benefits from the growth of the Web and why expanding Web use makes sense as a…

There, there, Ron I am the honoree of an attempted hatchet job by Ron Rosenbaum in - what’s the name of that site? Salon? no, Slate (I always get them confused). I’ll spare you his three pages of bluster (O, for…

Nov
11th

Tue

Testing rankers by interleaving search results Filip Radlinski, Madhu Kurup, and Thorsten Joachims had a paper at CIKM 2008, “How Does Clickthrough Data Reflect Retrieval Quality?” (PDF), with a surprising result on learning to rank using click…

To improve your indexes: sort your tables! Many database indexes, including bitmap indexes, are sensitive to the order of the rows in your table. Many data warehousing practitioners who urge you to sort your tables to get better results,…

Leaves in the web of knowledge Sometimes people conclude that I am very humble or just not very smart when I state that most of my work is not very important. In truth, a couple of things I did as a researcher are worth…

The last thing newspapers need I’m still shaking my head over the American Press Institute’s announcement of a closed-door, invitation-only emergency meeting of only CEO-level newspaper executives to, in the words of E&P “…

Leaves in the web of knowledge Sometimes people conclude that I am very humble or just not very smart when I state that most of my work is not very important. In truth, a couple of things I did as a researcher are worth…

Nov
10th

Mon

Tasks, not search, at DEMOfall08 Philipp Lenssen points to a video of a DEMOfall08 panel on “Where the Web is Going” that included Peter Norvig from Google and Prabhakar Raghavan from Yahoo.

What is notable in the talk is that…

Where is Dubai?

It’s ridiculous to think that in four days I could get a true sense of a nation or region I’ve never been to before. I think I could spend 40 years in this desert and not figure it out.

I’ve never…

Nov
9th

Sun

The iLike developer API

iLike now has a developer platform that lets you embed the iLike player in a web page and play just about any song on demand. There are three main functions:

iLikeDisplaySong -…

‘A fundamental reboot’ I’m at the final plenary session at the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils meeting in Dubai. In the last two WEF events I’ve attended, I’ve heard rumblings that were predictive of crises…

Understanding what makes database indexes work

Why do database indexes work?

In a previous post, I explained that only two factors make indexing possible:

your index expects specific queries
or you make specific assumptions about the data…

Nov
8th

Sat

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Nov
7th

Fri

The Ruffomender Now that the election is over, the entire country is focused on what kind of dog will Malia and Sasha be getting. Since we build recommenders, it is only natural that we try to solve this pressing…

Georgia Tech Launches Center for Music Technology

Georgia Tech today launches the new Center for Music Technology with more than 20 researchers from the arts, sciences and engineering. Several interdisciplinary projects already in…