The heck with sci-fi, try bio-sci... I enjoyed Darwin's Radio (Greg Bear) very much. The beauty of programming with genes... Also enjoyed Prey by Michael Crichton even though it's like a 20 minute read. (exaggeration)
The algorithms used at Firefly tried to do lots of things to get around this problem (it actually turned out you didn't have to do much, but we ran a lot of tests with lots of different algorithms to prove it). Now what I can't stop is the fact that Britney Spears is popular because lots of people claim to like her. But the collaborative filtering algorithms are not subject to group dynamics in the same way that averaging or global algorithms are...
MSFT wrote the best and fastest compiler for Java hands down when Sun started this stupidity. RMI was a freakin' mess, Netscape caused half of it, and then Sun comes after MSFT. There are cases where MSFT does some annoying stuff, like forcing MSN bookmarks in IE, but this one I can't fault them for.
I give a big middle finger to Sun for blowing what Java could have been.
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The heck with sci-fi, try bio-sci... I enjoyed Darwin's Radio (Greg Bear) very much. The beauty of programming with genes... Also enjoyed Prey by Michael Crichton even though it's like a 20 minute read. (exaggeration)
The algorithms used at Firefly tried to do lots of things to get around this problem (it actually turned out you didn't have to do much, but we ran a lot of tests with lots of different algorithms to prove it). Now what I can't stop is the fact that Britney Spears is popular because lots of people claim to like her. But the collaborative filtering algorithms are not subject to group dynamics in the same way that averaging or global algorithms are...
--djMax - one of the Firefly-ers.
MSFT wrote the best and fastest compiler for Java hands down when Sun started this stupidity. RMI was a freakin' mess, Netscape caused half of it, and then Sun comes after MSFT. There are cases where MSFT does some annoying stuff, like forcing MSN bookmarks in IE, but this one I can't fault them for. I give a big middle finger to Sun for blowing what Java could have been.