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Netflix Releases Solution Dataset

The Netflix Prize has been decided for almost three months now and the Grand Prize of one million dollars has been handed over to the winning team(s) BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos on Monday 21st of September. And Netflix has kept their promise to release the solution dataset via the UCI Machine Learning Repository. As of now […]

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Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft Switzerland invited to a short presentation and discussion round with Hank Janssen from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in Redmond. He talked a little bit about their infrastructure (which is impressive and awesome by the way), projects Microsoft has contributed to and why they do it. I made a few notes and […]

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Twitter @reply is Broken by Bots

Twitter is popular. Twitter has a simple and powerful API. Twitter displays @cocaman on a special page. These three points are enough to make the @reply option vulnerable. Chris Messina, Chief Open Source Advocate and BarCamp co-inventor, recently updated his “my-name-is” homepage. My camichel.com site is very much influenced by his old design. I had […]

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