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Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster
Kimberley Burchett writes "CS researchers at Stanford University have developed three new techniques that together could speed up Google's PageRank calculations by a factor of five. An article at ScienceBlog theorizes that "The speed-ups to Google's method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests or customized to a particular topic.""
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YOU FAIL IT!
YOU FAIL IT FIVE TIMES FASTER!
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
LAMENESS FILTER FAILS IT!
Ok, I didn't actually have anything to say, I just wanted to draw attention to my new sig.
Mmmmmmm...burning karma....alggggllllglglggg.
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The Oily Americans !!
Why the world doesn't trust the U.S. about petroleum: A history of meddling
By DONALD L. BARLETT AND JAMES B. STEELE
Monday, May. 12, 2003
(on TIME.com)
For more than a half-century, American foreign policy dealing with oil has typically been manipulative and misguided, often both at the same time. The pattern of intrigue has ranged from U.S. officials' secretly writing tax laws in the 1950s (so the Saudi royal family could collect more money from the sale of its oil and American companies could write off the added payments on their tax returns) to overthrowing a government that showed too much independence in handling its oil sales. To illustrate the dark side of American oil policy, we offer two tales, stitched together from declassified government documents and oil-industry memos, involving a pair of Iraq's neighbors, Iran and Afghanistan.
READ THE REST OF THIS STORY HERE - TIME.com: The Oily Americans
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