Kevin Lynch (Macromedia) has a blog now.
Category: Legacy
Andy’s posting on web log analyzers spurred me to look through Sawmill’s forums again and see what the status is on smp/dmp support. Good news it looks like. Althought it’s a few months away at the very least, it looks like version 7 will allow this (chunking the sections and then reassembling into the DB). Personally I’m pretty excited about it. I have a small stack of old Macs and PCs gathering up which would be perfect for clustering and doing log analysis.
This just in from CNN: Shuttle Traveling Nearly 18 Times Speed of Light. Well, I suppose it could be worse…
There’s a lot more out there on implementing collaborative filtering and personalization than on efficient web of trusts.
- Adaptive Resonance Theory clearinghouse – first read about ART-1 in DDJ a few months ago
- Personlization [PPT] – an explanation of ART-1 w/ example
- Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms [PDF]
- Improvements to Collaborative Filtering Algorithms
- Principia Cybernetica: Collaborative Filtering – PC is a great site
- Resources on Collaborative Filtering
- RDFWeb Research Notebook – I’ve linked to this before, but hey, it’s still a good list of Web of Trust resources.
- Trust Networks on the Semantic Web [PDF] – one of the papers on the Semantic Web Research Group, has a useful bibliography
Paul DeMone writes a great 10 page analysis on this year’s upcoming microprocessors: The Battle in 64 bit Land, 2003 and Beyond
Revolutionary molecules turn bland food bodacious
“There has been more discovered about taste perception in the last 36 months than in the last 360 years,” said scientist Gary Beauchamp, director of the non-profit Monnell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
We did a scan of web servers on campus. 299 Apache vs 292 IIS servers, 8 PWS servers vs 161 embedded HP servers. Of the Apache servers, 164 are Unix, 47 are Win32, and 36 are Darwin (there’s also 12 Netware and 2 OS/2 servers) .
- ebay.ca: IRAQ – DATE PALMS, OIL, ETC. CHEAP!! – final bid, $1.80 after hitting $99,999,966
- Athlon 64 delayed – apparently because Windows 64 isn’t done (surprise surprise).
- the Iraq fun doesn’t stop: Urgent: Highly Confidential
jz has a great little telephone dialogue wrt the smirking monkey.