December 2007
9 posts
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft - New... →
I still don’t completely buy that “cloud computing” will supplant the big 3 office desktop apps: word processing, spreadsheets & presentation creation. Email is a different story, and at least here in academia, there is already a transition to people accessing email exclusively on the web. Sometimes it might be nice to share document editing duties with others, in which...
“…he dismissively calls Support Vector Machines “a very clever type...”
– Quoted from Geeking with Greg. This Geoffrey Hinton video has just been added to the to-watch list.
John Battelle's Searchblog: More GoogleClick News:... →
Interesting post on John Battelle’s blog. Just yesterday, Andrew Tomkins from Yahoo! gave a talk describing how difficult (read impossible) it is to share data with researchers. The information gathered by large search engines is critical to refining the search algorithms and user experience. Battelle’s post is an indication that people are beginning to understand the level of...
“I worry that if the campaign’s common denominator gets any lower, it will...”
– Romney Runs First Attack Ad | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source I love the onion.
Aerobie® AeroPress(TM) Coffee & Espresso Maker →
new toy. good coffee.
Zune Arts →
Awesome animation advertisements for the zune. Despite is initial chilly reception, I think the zune will be a big success for Microsoft.
SIMS 141 on YouTube →
nice. all the lectures from the UCB class I linked to a couple days ago.
i141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and... →
Looks like a very cool seminar at Berkley iSchool