We all use SMS/short messages regularly. It must be the most used option of a mobile phone today. And this even though it is so expensive. I use my mobile phone also as a notebook for my ideas. But I have to search my to-do or notes list every time I want to write something […]
Continue ReadingNetflix 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 […]
Continue ReadingChallenge Project Workstation
* 24 Gigs of RAM * Intel® Xeon® Processor E5520, 8 real CPUs * Nvidia Geforce FX 3800 * Windows 7 Enterprise 64Bit Windows Experience Index: 5.9 (because of the hard drive)
Continue ReadingBrizzly Invitation
Update November 10th Use this link for your Brizzly invite: http://bit.ly/iIHtY After my in-depth review of Brizzly a new web-based Twitter client, I have now 10 invites to share. If you want on just add a comment below with your email address filled. I will invite you after that.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft 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 […]
Continue ReadingTwitter @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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