Knowledge-sharing. Diy. Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace : Victor Godot. Dear Proggit: I recently fell in love with a girl and wanted to. Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser. By Ilya Grigorik on March 03, 2009 After immersing yourself into the field of distributed computing and large data sets you inevitably come to appreciate the elegance of Google's Map-Reduce framework. Both the generality and the simplicity of its map, emit, and reduce phases is what makes it such a powerful tool. However, while Google has made the theory public, the underlying software implementation remains closed source and is arguably one of their biggest competitive advantages (GFS, BigTable, etc).
Of course, there is a multitude of the open source variants (Apache Hadoop, Disco, Skynet, amongst many others), but one can't help but to notice the disconnect between the elegance and simplicity of the theory and the painful implementation: custom protocols, custom servers, file systems, redundancy, and the list goes on! Which begs the question, how do we lower the barrier? Massively Collaborative Computation Client-Side Computation in the Browser Simple Job-Server in Ruby That's it. OpenHuman :: OpenSource YourSelf! Summation: buy time by skipping holiday parties. Alex King Explores The Next Generation in Blogs « Lorelle on Wor. Alex King has rebuilt his blog and started an extensive series about the process and the discoveries he made about the redesign and “new thinking” about how blogs work and how users use blogs.
In the first article on this ongoing series, King covers an overview of the changes he’s made to the site. The series so far includes: Future posts include using various WordPress Plugins, as well as updated versions, details on the new site, site maintenance simplified, benefits of CMS, and monetization options, along with a few other goodies.
I have learned a lot from the lessons King shares with us, so get your blogging buns over there and check it out for yourself. Related Articles Site Search Tags: alex king, how to blog, blogging tips, building a blog, blog design, website design, web design Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, member of the 9Rules Network Reach out and touch someone social: Like this: Like Loading... Welcome to Idealist.org - Imagine. Connect. Act. Photographic Height/Weight Chart. Localhostr. IconSurf.com Visual Surf Engine. Wave Report Homepage. Virtual Pickett N909-ES SIMPLEX TRIG RULE. Simulated Pickett N909-ES Slide Rule [Instruction Sheet (jpg)][Explanation][Gallery Index][back to AntiQuark] [Copyright © 2005 Derek Ross]
Sponsor A Word. OpenCola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi. LLMozLib &uBrowser. How to grow your own furniture. Grown furniture You need a suitable plot with enough space to allow access to the growing stool from all sides, and three young saplings (known as "whips") of a suitable species such as Sycamore. The easily assembled plywood jig, or drawings from which you can cut your own,is available .
For further details please email: info@grown-furniture.co.uk. It comes flat packed, complete with instructions. Accurate planting of the saplings is easy with the help of the positioning guide, supplied with the kit. They are trained to shape as they grow, being held in place temporarily with plant ties. When thick enough, the saplings can be gratfted together to form the joints of the stool frame The jig top panel keeps the horizontal sections of the sapling flat and correctly spaced. In about five years the frame should be sufficiently robust to allow you to harvest it and to add the top of your choice.
Springwise: new business ideas for entrepr. Staple-free stapler shopping in CB2 off. The Ultra Gleeper: a Recommendation Engine for Web Pages. By Leonard Richardson (leonardr at segfault dot org) Paper revision 1: 02/06/2005 Introduction Recommendation engines enjoyed a vogue in the mid-90s. They would solve the problem of information overload by matching user preferences against a large universe of data. The ultimate realization of this strategy would be a recommendation engine capable of mining that Northwest territory of data, the World Wide Web. Recommendation engines were built and run into troubles. But over the years, as people built these web sites, they came up with models and tools for solving the basic problem of finding and tracking useful web sites.
The shoulders of giants A web page recommendation engine is now possible because a lot of the work is done elsewhere on the web and exposed to the public, because web surfers track new types of information, and because new ideas have taken root. Giving away the store In this section I have collected all the little epiphanies I had that led to the Ultra Gleeper. What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life.
If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet. And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams. Which is an uncomfortable thought. Upwind Now. ZimZalabim's reviews. Science and Education. Liberal friendly quotes: "Knowledge is Power. " -- Francis Bacon "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. " -- Derek Bok, attributed "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. " -- Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes, Scandal in Bohemia, 1891) "If I have seen further,… it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
" -- Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/76 "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. " -- Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " -- Albert Einstein "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. " -- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
" "The only source of knowledge is experience. " -- Albert Einstein And from the other side... Next Section: Science vs. What'ya mean?