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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.

Clearing some random tech stuff from the plate:

• finally got around to fixing my mp3 record script to work with Jaguar
• when debugging vhosts, the ‘-s’ switch is definitely your friend

KSCR has a new site launched. At Ground Zero right now (Dear Nora pretending to be the Quesadillas) working on finishing my grad school application. As you can see by my posting I haven’t been very successful in concentrating on this application business. I still have about 20 hours before it’s due…

My original idea for a personal statement (for those curious, I’m submitting an application USC CNTV’s Interactive Media program) was to assemble it out of past blog posts, but upon review, I realized that despite about three years of ‘content’, there’s not much to work with here. A lot of it has to do with choices I’ve made w/ the focus of the blog. That and it’s all online anyway. My current personal statement relates this story. How meta, no?

Carmack rings in on his R300 vs NV30 thoughts. It’s also interesting reading about the new OGL extensions. The floating point pixel shading really has me tempted to drop three or four hundred bucks and getting back into graphics programming to write some real time filters . Still, not sure if I need a dustbuster in my computer (70+ dB for the GFFX!). I’ll probably wait until prices and noise levels come down. Reading Carmack makes one want to be a better nerd.

Wow, it looks like the Office of the Mayor liked our site so much that they decided to just copy it wholesale for their Free Cash for College. I’m surprised that anyone would like our site enough to rip it (they must like it more than any of us). What’s not surprising (but still amusing) is how badly it’s done. If you go through the source, you can clearly see that it’s our code (down to the vestigial positioned divs), but mangled through the MSHTML parser (this looks like a job for… Front Page!). Of course, you can see at the bottom of the page, that it’s all ©2002 The Office of the Mayor, and created by Netconnx. The K stands for Kwality.