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It's pretty easy to find out what the computing power of Seti@Home is, just check the totals to find that in the last 24 hours, on average, the computer was running at 96.79 teraflops. Only 8x that of ASCI White.

2. Check out the link regarding a "Warhol Worm".

I did. (For the lazy .)

Pretty amazing. It's great to have relevant data like that, and I appreciate that he will not remove the page; however, it screams "script kiddie" to me -- detailed instructions on how to create the "protocol" and forms of attack for the worm writer, along with relevant source code.

The next step: write a worm which can travel back in time and infect computers prior to the worm existing.

(There was a great series of books starting with "Red Limit Freeway" (forgot the author) which had a "map cube" of the universe which only existed in a loop -- the (older) main character gave it to the (younger) main character. Neat plot device.)

(PS Cool /. fortune currently "If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything." Relevant both to time travel and to the "lifetime" of the worm.)

Well, we know that with ~3 million consumer level CPU's, people like to look for aliens

The next evolutionary step after the Warhol Worm is the Flash Worm and the Extortion Worm.

Does this mean that instead of looking for messages from other planets we should be looking for messages from ourselves, in the future?

Nothing is created or destroyed, at least I don't think we have found anything basic that is yet (matter, energy, etc). So far the universe has been pretty zero sum.

What about singularities (i.e. black holes)? (Interested readers see http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html #q1)

or...

If you believe in the ``Big Bang'' model as conventionally proposed (seems that the majority of non-Physics majors do) then how do you explain the presence of `dark matter' in the Universe? It had to come from somewhere and if it didn't exist before the Universe was created then, by definition, it had to be created afterwards. (Interested readers see http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ukdmc/dark_matter/galactic_ dm.html)

"my home computer where i leave my DSL on to make it work on SETI"

Actually the SETI team is against such behaviour.
As they clearly state here. They think it important to do the SETI search "in an environmentally conscious way".

I spoke with a friend a while back about some work with multiple plane 3D display units a while back. Using Google, I found a few people that have multiple (arbitrary?) layers of depth using lasers. Yes, this is different than LCD and functionally more difficult, but interesting nonetheless.

The idea is to send multiple beams into a glass cube. When beams interesct, they flouresce. By controling the way the beams enter the cube, one can create a volumetric display. There is an article here about some work done by some Stanford folks, and a somewhat related presentation here from some Berkeley folks.

(also searching, I found the there was an article about Actual Depth here on /. a while back.)

It's funny, because I found out KALX (UC Berkeley radio station) is broadcast on the internet... just in time to hear it will be shutting down due to licensing fees. Great.

Believe who you will, but if Paula Samuelson says the point is controversial, I'm inclined to believe her. Perhaps the point isn't as obvious as the article makes it out to be.

"A related difficulty arises from the fact that fundamental legal concepts can be interpreted differently. For example, significantly different (and emphatic) views exist on whether the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law is merely a defense against a charge of infringement or an affirmative right that allows copying in specific circumstances. The difference matters, for both theoretical and pragmatic reasons. If fair use is an affirmative right, for instance, then it ought to be acceptable to take positive actions, such as circumventing technical protection mechanisms (e.g., decoding an encrypted file), in order to exercise fair use. However, if fair use is merely a defense against infringement, the same action may be unjustifiable. The basic point is very controversial. While one legal scholar has labeled as "absurd" the notion that fair use could be an affirmative right, other scholars suggest a constitutional basis for affirmative fair use rights."

THE DIGITAL DILEMMA:
A Perspective on Intellectual Property in the Information Age by
Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, and Randall Davis, MIT. (page 13)

Without taking any part in the debate of browser integration, I feel that it is an absolute necessity to speak out the facts about the Windows Media Player.

Basically, Media Player will play back any audio / video format for which a DirectShow filter is available. The API is completely published; anybody can go out and write their own DirectShow filter for any new audio / video format that (s)he might develop. It is also completely open in the other direction; anybody can go out and write their own media player that can take the full advantage of all the DirectShow filters installed on the system. Good examples are Zoom Player (good for crappy TV-out chips like in some Geforce2 MX cards), TMPGEnc (can read in any video format that is supported and write out MPEG-1 or 2) and AVISynth (virtualizes any DirectShow-supported video format into .avi that all video editing programs understand).

Additionally, Media Player 6.4 is the absolutely best media player program that there can be. It's light weight, fast, simple, easy to use and doesn't have any advertisements. It can also retrieve newly supported codecs automatically from a server in the Internet, although this feature hasn't been used much. Compared to RealPlayer and Quicktime Player, the superiority is obvious.

It looks more like Apple and Real are pissed off because they would lose precious advertising and branding revenues if any media player program could play back their files. As previously noted, *anybody* can write their own DirectShow filter so Apple and Real definitely have the technical abilities to make those, but don't want to do so. Of course, it would mean that anybody could use the DirectShow filters to re-encode the content from their proprietary formats to some open format like MPEG-1 or 2, and reduce Real's and Apple's exclusivity value. It would also mean that people wouldn't be limited to their crappy, ad- and spyware-ridden media player programs.

Incidentally, DivX was supported in Linux originally thanks to the DirectShow filters being available. It was relatively easy to hook them up to a media player in a completely different OS, even if the source code wasn't available. Not very surprisingly, neither the Realvideo/audio codecs nor the most common Quicktime codecs are supported in for example mplayer.

In other words, would you REALLY want to see the standard Media Player removed from Windows and have it replaced with RealPlayer and Quicktime Player that don't play half of the formats that Media Player does, and are slow, sluggish, difficult to use and filled with advertisements and spyware, and are basically dead-ends when it comes to video formats and video processing? I wouldn't.

Gosling is fat. Also, Java has serious issues itself when it comes to scientific computing.

Please see this paper for further information.

Funny he should mention that as one of .Net's shortcomings.... Also he feels "ripped off"? Sure, C# is an awful lot like Java, but then Java was an awful lot like C++. Borrowing good features from past languages isn't robbery, its just smart.

In short, shut up fatty!

There are many other research programs, both academic and industrial, on wireless ad hoc networks, going back at least to the 1978 DARPA-sponsored Distributed Sensor Nets Workshop at Carnegie-Mellon University. Most of the work has been funded by DARPA, by the low-power wireless integrated microsensors (LWIM) project of the mid-1990s and now by the SensIT project. (Their projects page lists more than 25 academic research programs on these networks, complete with links.)

The University of California at Los Angeles, often working in collaboration with the Rockwell Science Center, has had a Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS) project since 1993. UCLA also supports the similar-but-different "Smart Dust" program, which also employs ultra-low-power networking, but uses optical communication between network nodes.

Professor Anantha Chandrakasan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the Principal Investigator of the uAMPS (microAMPS) project.

On the commercial side, these networks are being developed by Ember, graviton, Wherenet, and Motorola, just to name a few.

The ZigBee industry consortium is the marketing and compliance arm of the IEEE 802.15.4 draft standard, in a relationship similar to that between WECA (with the "Wi-Fi" brand) and IEEE 802.11b. This draft standard for ultra-low-power, ultra-low-cost wireless networking, now under development, should be finished this winter.

Those MP3's must sound great running at less than 10Kbit/sec.This is definitely too slow to stream, and much slower than 56K modems to transfer. Is the goal to be able to remotely control a MP3 player (that has its own local storage or fast network connection)? The MP3 decoder seems like a waste of space and power to me. These devices seem much better suited for text and sensor communications.

Two friends of mine is working in that project. As some of the posters have already noted, it's aiming to be something different than current systems e.g. ultra-cheap transmitters, which uses as less energy as possible. They are not quite yet there (as the article metions), the first prototype is actually quite large and uses lot of energy, but on the other hand only it's aimed to be a "proof-of-concept"

Their current prototype has also a built-in MP3-decoder chip (really!) so it's possible that RIAA & CO will try to shut down the project with DMCA :-)

Here's the homepage of the project.

V.

PicoRadio doesn't appear to be based on 802.11x at all so it doesn't have the same issues. Now it could have other issues, but I imagine that with all of the publicity that 802.11x garnered, that real security is being considered.

I saw Jan Rabaey's talk at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC, the hardest of hardcore circuit conferences). The research is bold and fairly interesting. The slides from the presentation are worth the read. The research might not pan out, but it's definitely worth a shot.

You can find more technical info about his research on the PicoRadio page.

I saw Jan Rabaey's talk at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC, the hardest of hardcore circuit conferences). The research is bold and fairly interesting. The slides from the presentation are worth the read. The research might not pan out, but it's definitely worth a shot.

You can find more technical info about his research on the PicoRadio page.

An example of research in user interfaces is Denim which aims to marry the advantages of old fashioned pen+paper design with the convenience of having the computer handle the details. The idea is to allow the designer to freely sketch with a tablet but also add hyperlinks between sketches as the design progresses. There's a sample of the generated mockup, but really the videos on the page linked above are really neat. They show a person using a tablet to do a sample design. The software also incorporates some other modern interface ideas such as the zoomable UI and the pie menu.

An example of research in user interfaces is Denim which aims to marry the advantages of old fashioned pen+paper design with the convenience of having the computer handle the details. The idea is to allow the designer to freely sketch with a tablet but also add hyperlinks between sketches as the design progresses. There's a sample of the generated mockup, but really the videos on the page linked above are really neat. They show a person using a tablet to do a sample design. The software also incorporates some other modern interface ideas such as the zoomable UI and the pie menu.

I'm a DJ at KALX Berkeley 90.7FM, a UC Berkeley-run college radio station. Because of certian provisions in the DMCA, our Internet stream, among many other college stations' streams will be forced to shut down since we won't be able to pay the Record companies for _every_ song we have played, retroactively, since our stream first went up two years ago.. I really REALLY hate the DMCA... Check out our website http://kalx.berkeley.edu and check out the "Save Our Streams" link for more details and an online petition.

> A valid point, and I may read some more of the articles on the site.

Please do. You may also be interested in some stuff at DMoz Relational Implementations and Model listings... I created these, they have been taken over with no explanations and I could never get back into DMoz, again with now explanations as to why.

> But I'm not likely to buy books merely to understand an argument which appears dubious and impractical.

‘Dubious and impractical’ in which grounds? In fact, it’s hardly dubious because they are the authors and maintainers of the relational model; and it’s not impractical at all because there were already at least two faithful implementations of the relational model already, one currently in beta and other in production usage for twenty years already, not to mention other implementations, partial or not that aren’t perfect but are still more faithful to the model.

> It seems that the core issue is the authors' demand to define 'relational database' in a sense that predates SQL and ignores all recent evolution.

The whole point is that SQL is an involution.

> Has anyone written a true relational database? If not, what are they waiting for? Is such a database vastly harder to write than the pseudo-relational databases being used today?

Yes, as I pointed above. The issue here is that the market has in the eighties taken the ‘safe’ option (IBM SQL/DS) and fell in love with it over the better alternatives, just as it did with MS Windows over Unix and OS/2 in the nineties.

> Sounds like another collision between reality and ideal. In an ideal world, the structure and business model of a company would be known in advance and someone would create a unified data model for the company. In practice, large companies purchase many different software packages that come with their own database schema.

Again that’s a failure in the tools and processes. Even if SQL is fundamentally flawed, if it was really standard integrating all these databases wouldn't be so hard; if it was really distributed it would be a given; if on top of this all these products were properly documented, this job would be almost done already.

Each project has it's own benefits. I completed 5000 SETI units and now I am looking for prime numbers. If you feel that strongly about medical research, then good for you. I did not like the bandwidth problems SETI kept running into. I decided my spare cpu cycles would be better spent elsewhere. I share the same concern others have expressed about how the medical research data will be used. Some companies think they can patent my genes :(

I recommend that people look at all of the distributed projects. I suggest that you can support more than one. We can learn from all of them.

BTW, the EFF supports GIMPS. Maybe I will get back that money I have been donating for the last few years ;-)

If d.net did something interesting, like attempt to find an improved factoring algorithm, or to find a way to perform interesting analysis on ciphertext, then it would be useful. Right now though, it's a 100% useless application.

Think for a moment about what d.net truly does, and tell me with a straight face that it's interesting to either a cryptologist or a cryptanalyst.

If you want to help somebody with your spare cycles, you can help cure diseases or if you're so inclined, you can perform FFTs on random noise. Don't try to tell me that d.net helps anything though; you're kidding yourself if you think so.

;-)

;-)

• More Orbits
• Way indepth, should give you enough - as long as you have a basic understanding of physics
• more equations than you can shake a stick at

Here's the final paper.

Here's the final paper.

In keeping with Microsoft's tradition of rarely doing its own innovation...

Many years ago somebody was selling Automatic Teller Machines that used this approach instead of numeric PINs. I wish I had a reference but this was way pre-Web (1970s).

Also, this was discussed at Usenix 2000 and CrypTec 99 - see:
http://paris.cs.berkeley.edu/~perrig/projects.html #DEJAVU

and on Slashdot on Dec 28, 2001

So much supercomputing power might find a good use not for building bombs but in listening to the cosmos for SETI -- the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

The SETI@Home Project might achieve with these supercomputers what it could never accomplish with every desktop PC in the world.

I wonder if they'll run the SETI client on it during non-peak times. We could find nothing that much faster!

My Rijndael Implementation. 1.3 Gbps, $10 part. Free (as in rights and beer). Have a nice day. And you put your crypto at the endpoints anyway, which is a silicon world.

How many of you have been to china? Seen any pictures of the Yangzte River? Ever been up close enough to it to see the wonderful color it is? How about the fact that China planned to divert another river
using nuclear weapons.

Now, lets get away from China, regardless of the fact that they are 1/6th the worlds population. The greenhouse effect is not a myth. I cannot believe the level of ignorance being shown on here. Hell, considering we're supposed to be at least partially enlightened a generation.

I feel incredibly confident about the world my children will grow up in. Lets hope we get some interplanetary space travel developed, or at least make contact, otherwise we'll right screwed.

rant--;

For those who are interested, the actual link to the Smart Dust software project is Tiny OS: An operating system for Networked Sensors.

If I remember correctly, the OS [sic] for the processor on the Smart Dust project was about 150 bytes. It really only implements co-routines, but co-routines form the basis for multitasking in Windows 3.1 and Mac OS less-than-X.

I usually generate two outputs of my LaTeX documents: Postscript and PDF. The PDF version usually looks a bit better on screen than the PostScript version.

mind you: I generate the PDF version using pdflatex . I can't remember exactly, but I think I've seen a utility that converts DVI files to PDF and that this produced horrible output. use pdflatex .

because generate multiple output formats (PS, PDF and HTML) from the same LaTeX document, I usually use a package I wrote that contains a lot of convenient macros to make use of the different features in the different formats -- in addition to automating a lot of boring tasks.

I remember how delighted I was when I discovered pdflatex. once you work it into your repertoire you get all this cool stuff for free, like hyperlinks in PDF documents etc. I really recommend you give it a try.

Check out the PDFTeX web page for more information.
Also have a look at Matt Welsh' page about creating presentations in PDFLaTeX. He has some useful information on how to install TrueType fonts for use by PDFLaTeX.

-Bjørn

This was my final year project thesis. Just remember the golden rule unstructured 2 structured == convert 2 XML I wrote a [very bad] program in C++/Perl/tcsh IPC=pipes to add XML tags to English, and then index them into a search engine which would use the lingual data stored in the XML tags to help the search.

NIST does a MASSIVE competition on this annually. I don't want to be an XML-buzzword whore <Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> (XML commando eats Green berets, C++, Java, Perl, COBOL for breakfast)</Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> but you can't beat XML for easily converting anything that you can make sense out of into computer readable format. Real h3cKoRs use SGML, but us underlings have to stick with things we can understand like XML. As for expandability, if we want to encode something else into the document, then just tag-it-and-go

It took me 200 hours to fish out all these links (before the Google days), I don't want anyone to have to waste as much time as I did feeding the search engines exotic foods. It's a year old so pardon me for the odd broken link, armed with these you could probably turn jello into XML ;-)

My favourite bookmarx
PROJect[21 links]
Beginners' Guide[13 links]
Berkeley Linguistics Dept. Course Summaries, general stuffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzCryptic IR Vocabulary defined
Explanations of weird words like hypernym zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHow do we produce and understand speech
How Inverted Files are Created - Univeristy of Berkeley zzzzzzzzzzzzzzNLP Univ. of Indiana, very good basics e.g. word sense d
Simple langauge - useful.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWhat is Natural Language Processing, links
What is POS tagging........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguation defined
Word Sense Disambiguation in detail, scroll down far zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguator - LOLITA (tested at MUC-7 and SENSEVAL competition as best)
XML for the absolute beginner

HTML, XML stuff + parsers[19 links]
Apache plug-in that uhhh does stuff with XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzConvert COM to XML
convert XML, HTML to Unix pipeable formats zzzzzzzzzzzzzzconverters to and from HTML
expat XML parser zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHTML Tidy - converts HTML 2 XML + source code!!
Parse DB (RDBMS, whatever) to XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPerl-XML Module List
PHP Manual XML parser functions - what the hell are they talking about, PHP Virtual M... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPublic SGML-XML Software
Pyxie - XML Processor for Python, Perl, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSGML+XML tools.org
The XML Resource Centre - massive number of links zzzzzzzzzzzzzzW4F wrapper - wrapper converts XML to HTML
XFlat - convert flat file into XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML Parsers and other XML stuff
XML.com - Parsers, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML-Data Catalog System - uhhhh looks close
XTAL's general converter - convert anything 2 XML

other Background[8 links]
Is Linux ready for the Enterprise, scalable... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzLinux reliability
Linux Versus Windows NT, Mark(sysinternals bloke) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPC reliability (pcworld)
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSystems benchmarks
TPC - Transaction Processing Performance Council zzzzzzzzzzzzzzUnix Beats Back NT In EDA Workstation Arena
Proper TREC(-8) QA systems[2 links]

pg. 387 LIMSI-CNRS pretty deep parsing[2 links]
More links....
NLP, IR links - lots to corpii, etc.

pg. 575 U. of Ottawa and NRL (shit system, got 0%)[1 links]
LAKE Lab
pg. 607! University of Sheffield (crap system, but OPEN SOURCE!)[2 links]
GATE - FREE IE app w`source code
LaSIE - ER, coreference, template (cv)

pg. 617 Univ of Surrey (inconclusive matches)[2 links]
System Quirk - Or is this their search system..... Hmmmmmm
Univ of Surrey - pointers (hopefully this is their WILDER search system...)

SMU - Pg. 65[1 links]
Natural Language Processing Laboratory at SMU

Textract[2 links]
Cymfony - Technology
Textract - State of the Art Information Extraction

Xerox uhhhhh maybe[1 links]
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(OVERVIEW) 1999 TREC-8 Q&A Track Home Page
NLP bloke, Univ Sussex


Tcl-Tk[4 links] Tcl tutorial
Tcl-Tk Contributed Programs Index
Tcl-Tk Resources, sources
TclXML - manipulating XML using Tcl-Tk
Artificial Natural Language - Is this what I'm trying to parse into...
Comparison of Indexers - Prise vs. Inquery vs. MG, etc.
Eagles - Language Engineering Standards
Language Technology Group - lots of modules!
LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, lots of corpora
Lexical Resources
Links 2 resources, indexers.....
Lots of IR stuff, University of uhhh
Managing Gigabytes Indexer
Managing Gigabytes Manuals and stuff
Htdig search system
NLP & IR (NLPIR, NIST) Group
OVERVIEW OF MUC-7-MET-2
Perl XML Indexing - XML search engine type thing
Phrasys Language Processing Software Components (money)
QA HCI bullshit
SIGIR - TREC-type thing, resources
SMART indexer system documentation
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Home Page
The Natural Language Software Registry
Thunderstone IE and IR products
WordNet - FREE DOWNLOADABLE lexical English database

Page created with URL+, nice utility for working with internet shortcuts

This was my final year project thesis. Just remember the golden rule unstructured 2 structured == convert 2 XML I wrote a [very bad] program in C++/Perl/tcsh IPC=pipes to add XML tags to English, and then index them into a search engine which would use the lingual data stored in the XML tags to help the search.

NIST does a MASSIVE competition on this annually. I don't want to be an XML-buzzword whore <Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> (XML commando eats Green berets, C++, Java, Perl, COBOL for breakfast)</Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> but you can't beat XML for easily converting anything that you can make sense out of into computer readable format. Real h3cKoRs use SGML, but us underlings have to stick with things we can understand like XML. As for expandability, if we want to encode something else into the document, then just tag-it-and-go

It took me 200 hours to fish out all these links (before the Google days), I don't want anyone to have to waste as much time as I did feeding the search engines exotic foods. It's a year old so pardon me for the odd broken link, armed with these you could probably turn jello into XML ;-)

My favourite bookmarx
PROJect[21 links]
Beginners' Guide[13 links]
Berkeley Linguistics Dept. Course Summaries, general stuffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzCryptic IR Vocabulary defined
Explanations of weird words like hypernym zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHow do we produce and understand speech
How Inverted Files are Created - Univeristy of Berkeley zzzzzzzzzzzzzzNLP Univ. of Indiana, very good basics e.g. word sense d
Simple langauge - useful.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWhat is Natural Language Processing, links
What is POS tagging........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguation defined
Word Sense Disambiguation in detail, scroll down far zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguator - LOLITA (tested at MUC-7 and SENSEVAL competition as best)
XML for the absolute beginner

HTML, XML stuff + parsers[19 links]
Apache plug-in that uhhh does stuff with XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzConvert COM to XML
convert XML, HTML to Unix pipeable formats zzzzzzzzzzzzzzconverters to and from HTML
expat XML parser zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHTML Tidy - converts HTML 2 XML + source code!!
Parse DB (RDBMS, whatever) to XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPerl-XML Module List
PHP Manual XML parser functions - what the hell are they talking about, PHP Virtual M... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPublic SGML-XML Software
Pyxie - XML Processor for Python, Perl, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSGML+XML tools.org
The XML Resource Centre - massive number of links zzzzzzzzzzzzzzW4F wrapper - wrapper converts XML to HTML
XFlat - convert flat file into XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML Parsers and other XML stuff
XML.com - Parsers, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML-Data Catalog System - uhhhh looks close
XTAL's general converter - convert anything 2 XML

other Background[8 links]
Is Linux ready for the Enterprise, scalable... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzLinux reliability
Linux Versus Windows NT, Mark(sysinternals bloke) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPC reliability (pcworld)
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSystems benchmarks
TPC - Transaction Processing Performance Council zzzzzzzzzzzzzzUnix Beats Back NT In EDA Workstation Arena
Proper TREC(-8) QA systems[2 links]

pg. 387 LIMSI-CNRS pretty deep parsing[2 links]
More links....
NLP, IR links - lots to corpii, etc.

pg. 575 U. of Ottawa and NRL (shit system, got 0%)[1 links]
LAKE Lab
pg. 607! University of Sheffield (crap system, but OPEN SOURCE!)[2 links]
GATE - FREE IE app w`source code
LaSIE - ER, coreference, template (cv)

pg. 617 Univ of Surrey (inconclusive matches)[2 links]
System Quirk - Or is this their search system..... Hmmmmmm
Univ of Surrey - pointers (hopefully this is their WILDER search system...)

SMU - Pg. 65[1 links]
Natural Language Processing Laboratory at SMU

Textract[2 links]
Cymfony - Technology
Textract - State of the Art Information Extraction

Xerox uhhhhh maybe[1 links]
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(OVERVIEW) 1999 TREC-8 Q&A Track Home Page
NLP bloke, Univ Sussex


Tcl-Tk[4 links] Tcl tutorial
Tcl-Tk Contributed Programs Index
Tcl-Tk Resources, sources
TclXML - manipulating XML using Tcl-Tk
Artificial Natural Language - Is this what I'm trying to parse into...
Comparison of Indexers - Prise vs. Inquery vs. MG, etc.
Eagles - Language Engineering Standards
Language Technology Group - lots of modules!
LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, lots of corpora
Lexical Resources
Links 2 resources, indexers.....
Lots of IR stuff, University of uhhh
Managing Gigabytes Indexer
Managing Gigabytes Manuals and stuff
Htdig search system
NLP & IR (NLPIR, NIST) Group
OVERVIEW OF MUC-7-MET-2
Perl XML Indexing - XML search engine type thing
Phrasys Language Processing Software Components (money)
QA HCI bullshit
SIGIR - TREC-type thing, resources
SMART indexer system documentation
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Home Page
The Natural Language Software Registry
Thunderstone IE and IR products
WordNet - FREE DOWNLOADABLE lexical English database

Page created with URL+, nice utility for working with internet shortcuts

George A. Akerlof, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. This took me 1 minute to find. And I could find another 10 in 10 minutes. But it is easier for you to just make things up than to actually do a bit of research first.

SO, teachers, by the nature of passing on information that is already known CAN NOT be cutting edge.

Are you really that ignorant about university research that you are unaware of the hundreds of nobel laureates that are professors. It is the research that they pursue in addition to their minor teaching responsibilites that is cutting edge nobel material, and if you are in a good graduate program, you will be studying cutting-edge research--the only places in the corporate world that can compare are places like Xerox PARC, and they are anomolies. Truthfully, there are a lot of bad teachers, but as you go higher, the quality changes radically. University professors in a good program are just about as intelligent as they come--which is not to say that they can teach, 'cause they often can't and don't care.

If you only mean to say that teachers through community cutting edge are not cutting edge, then no shit. Who would argue otherwise? How many of the millions of programmers of the world actually do anything cutting edge? less than .01% I would estimate. If the commercial world is so cutting edge, why are commercial OSs so far behind research OSs. Compare any extant commercial operating system of today to the Mach OS of ten years ago.

I think that probably you are trolling, so I won't respond any more. But look at a list of physics nobel laureates and see how many of them were professors when they did the work that led to the nobel.

but does it run SETI??

Other universities do control satellites as well. UC Berkeley ran EUVE (reentered at the end of January), as well a spacecraft called FAST and the newly launched HESSI

There may be others but I don't know.

What is the role of government in a capitalist society?
The only purpose of government would be to protect its citizens from force or fraud.

Note that it is to protect the citizens from force or fraud, not property.

While subsidies of individuals is a far cry from try capitalism, I approve that more than how the government is effectively subsidizing large corporations now.

There are some interesting ones out there you might consider looking at as a model. My favorite one is for California Botany. They're trying to list and collect electronic pictures of every plant species found in California.

The major problem I have with some of the online sites (although this one is pretty flexible in how it lets you search) is if you find some cool-looking plant but don't know what it is, it is very difficult to find out, since the data is organized by species name or common name. Or if you know it by a different common name than whoever listed it, you may also not be able to find your plant.

That would be a good, and still plenty difficult, project: make a scheme to make it easier to identify an unknown plant. Maybe make it so you can pick what you can search by: size, or color, or altitude where you found it, or click on a state map to get a sub-list of species there... The possibilities are endless. Every field guide I have is organized along a different principle, but that's the beauty of a database. No reason why you shouldn't be able to search by whatever characteristic you want.

So yeah, build a better search tool for one of these projects, or like you said, add food-web data, make links from one database to another correlating where stuff is found, or what eats it, or whatever. There's lots of room for improvement and connectivity in this field.

I can just see Rumsfeld now after getting wind of this discovery...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld charges in to brief reporters breathing heavily smelling of whiskey and sporting a wiked grin...

"This morning at 9am EST... *froth* *drool*... I ordered all US personnel out of Afghanistan in preparation for "testing" of a new... *froth* *snarl*... fusion bomb which will reduce most of Afghanistan far past the stone-age to sometime near the middle of the Precambrian era. *snarl* *spit*... That is all.

Q: What does a neutrino detector actually detect? A: The presence of funding.'

Theorists were convinced that neutrinos would be observed jumping from tau to mu versions ...whatever that means... and it's just the tech hasn't caught up to make an observation?

There are some more exotic, interesting experiments too like AMANDA which uses antarctic ice for neutrinos to interact with, rather than piles of iron.

Is it just possible that it's a matter of technology to produce tabletop/cold fusion?

Heat treating the metal or something?

High temp superconducting seems to still be a alot of hit or miss experimentation.

Why would cold fusion be so different a technology from that?

-- Bob

/.-ed twice? Yet more proof that p2p is a hype technology.

I still remember talking to a Mojo developer at a con about what really happens with distributing file slicing:

Me: "So what if all the peers with my file are down?"

Developer: "They won't be. You'll still be able to get your file."

Me: "How?"

Developer: "You'll still be able to get your file."

?!?!?

Rather telling, actually; it's been 2+ years since gnutella. The number of novel p2p applications out there is slim. The number of platforms is even slimmer, which is really disappointing. P2p was supposed to revolutionize everything, not just vaporware.

There is a promising platform for running p2p services at PeerMetrics. Another one is JXTA. Both come with source. I was looking forward to World OS, but it appears to be dead. Most p2p endeavors are still unreleased, like Ocean Store.

I hope more people get to put in some dev cycles on p2p platforms. Applications like The Circle are cool, but as a standalone app the code isn't really leverageable. We need more shared effort. The economy aside, I believe it's taking forever because p2p is harder to write for than expected.

Hopefully this isn't true, and in the next year we'll finally see some real progress. Either way more p2p hype storms are a sure bet.

Whilst 16 Exobytes might sound like a BIGNUM for RAM, it isn't that much of a bignum for large scale disk arrays.

Actually, it is a very large number for disk arrays.

I'm unaware of a filesystem that can scale as large as XFS; there may be others, though. XFS uses 64-bit addressing, allowing the filesystem to scale to 18 million terabytes (or 18 exabytes, if you prefer). No filesystem in the world has ever remotely approached that size. According to this nifty site, total worldwide disk drive production for the year 2000 only totalled 2.5 million terabytes. So to build a filesystem that's 18 million TB big, you'd have to commandeer all hard drive production, worldwide, for about 12 years.

They estimate that the total amount of data stored on hard drives in the entire world is only about 4 million TB. That means you could theoretically put all the data in the world that is currently stored on hard drives-- all the pr0n, all the MP3s, all the source code, all the PowerPoints, everything-- on one server with one big filesystem, and only use about 1/4 of the filesystem's capacity. Mount it under /earth and set the permissions to 700, please.

Of course, this fact fails to address your basic premise, which seems to be that assigning unique integer addresses to every byte that a computer can access would be a reasonable thing to do.

Even if there were a reason to do such a thing, don't forget that increasing your pointer size decreases your cache efficiency; you can fit twice as many 32-bit pointers in your cache as you can 64-bit pointers, which results in fewer cache misses and overall better performance. (How much better depends on how cache-friendly your task is in the first place, but 32-bit will never be less cache-friendly than 64-bit.)

They produce more energy than they consume? I find this hard to believe. Last time I checked, the First Law of Thermodynamics ruled this impossible.

I work in a lab on campus (not on the residental dorm pipe) kingkong.me.berkeley.edu and the bandwidth deosn't really seem to be affecting the speed of the network at all. Heck I just downloaded an iso from linuxiso.org at 200 Kbps just last week.