Quoting his FAQ: "So this email is an appeal to the FreeBSD user community, to try to raise money for three to six months of my time to make our filesystem and disk-I/O subsystem work properly on both single-user and multi-processor systems."
I believe that if he puts up a small work plan with the following items he will convince more funding from corporations such as Yahoo!, Apple, etc.
More details on the work he wants to do.
A description of the benefits from the output and who will benefit most.
Self-financing is the one way of bootstrapping a business. Very risky for the entrepreneur as he might loose it all. It shows strong commitment to the business though, which helps a million for subsequent money raising rounds through Angel Investors, VCs, and Banks etc.
Another way, is the 3Fs (Friends, Family and Fools). One of its major advantages is that it's relatively easy and quick with small business ownership dilution. Major risk is alienation of the first 2Fs if the business fails or if they want their money back soon.
Angel Investors invest during bootstrapping sometimes. They don't demand IP ownership, but will ask to be on the Directors board. On the other hand, they can give you really good money.
I am not surprised you are not impressed. A problem with Bayesian approaches is that when you get a very high percentage of spam in comparison to normal email the filters become very unstable and error prone. Having tried bayesian filtering I switched back to the following filter steps:
Check accross whitelists for trusted users and domains.
Check accross blacklists of known sources of spam (domains and some users)
If an email doesn't hit a whitelist or a blacklist do the following:
Check against some very simple header rules associated with spam.
If it doesn't hit the header rules use spamassassin. Persistent spammers who hit spammasssin are automatically blacklisted.
Spamassassin uses scores on hand-crafted rules to filter spam that are unbeatable by simple word scores.
All this, is incredibly effecive in terms of filtering spam out and in terms of speed. I get less than 0.2% of false positives and almost zero false negatives.
Rumours say that the Swedish mathematician Gosta Magnus Mittag-Leffler ran away with Alfred Nobel's wife. That's the reason there's no Nobel prize for Maths.
Other rumours say that Mittag-Leffler was competing for a similar prize with his own wealth. Because Nobel was afraid that Mittag-Leffler would win a Nobel prize in Maths he never introduce a Maths prize.
If you want to learn more about networking in a less theoretical way I strongly recommend IBM's redbook
TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview (link points to abstract and TOC). You can find a link to the PDF there. It's 980 pages but it's an easy read and free! I use it as an extended reference for freshening up my memory on stuff.
I agree with this. I 've been using cygwin for the last two years and Exceed prior to XFree on Cygwin. When XFree arrived I used it for a couple of months but it's very cumbersome to use if you want to use Windows and X apps together.
I reverted back to Exceed for the moment. When Cygwin/XFree integrates with Window I will definetely remove Exceed.
Don't want to be negative here. I love Cygwin, and I use it on an every day basis and will be looking forward in using Cygwin/XFree in the future.
Leaving aside caching, groups, images, answers, news, speed, etc. etc I would like to say this about Teomas Refine Search capabilities.
Teoma is trying to urge users to use query expansion techniques for enriching their queries through the "Refine Search". Query expansion works well in Information Retrieval experiments. Problem is that users are too lazy to do all that clicking (an extra couple of clicks!).
Google definetely has the technology to add some query reformulation and expansion. They just realised user laziness right from the start. That's what makes them so irresistable. Google users feel that they save time and make less effort to find stuff. A good study on this can be found in this article.
Someone at Teoma should run a query on the Kiss Principle
According to this page www.ufoscotland.co.uk has some video evidence (I don't read chinese, an assumption!).
Pity that ufoscotland went low on cash and went offline now. You can have a look on some pictures of the "evidence" at the wayback machine archives here.
By the way, I am living in the West coast of Scotland for the last six years. I 've never seen UFOs, ghosts or Nessie:) Maybe aliens prefer beautiful Edinburgh and the Highlands.
I think the story is good for a tourist boost! Weather has been horrible last couple of months!!
Have a read on that and some other articles in the archive. I am sure you it will help you put your thoughts in some order. You can then give it a try (diplomatic one) and move the waters a bit.
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I believe that if he puts up a small work plan with the following items he will convince more funding from corporations such as Yahoo!, Apple, etc.
More details on the work he wants to do.
A description of the benefits from the output and who will benefit most.
Milestones and a rough timeline.
A priorities list on the work.
Just my opinion...
Another way, is the 3Fs (Friends, Family and Fools). One of its major advantages is that it's relatively easy and quick with small business ownership dilution. Major risk is alienation of the first 2Fs if the business fails or if they want their money back soon.
Angel Investors invest during bootstrapping sometimes. They don't demand IP ownership, but will ask to be on the Directors board. On the other hand, they can give you really good money.
All this, is incredibly effecive in terms of filtering spam out and in terms of speed. I get less than 0.2% of false positives and almost zero false negatives.
Other rumours say that Mittag-Leffler was competing for a similar prize with his own wealth. Because Nobel was afraid that Mittag-Leffler would win a Nobel prize in Maths he never introduce a Maths prize.
The solution to the mystery can be found here
My bet is that they use Topic Detection & Tracking techniques and a variation of the Scatter/Gather approach. The latter one was invented at Xerox Parc where Craig Silverstein used to work.
If you want to learn more about networking in a less theoretical way I strongly recommend IBM's redbook TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview (link points to abstract and TOC). You can find a link to the PDF there. It's 980 pages but it's an easy read and free! I use it as an extended reference for freshening up my memory on stuff.
Anyone cached the article?
I reverted back to Exceed for the moment. When Cygwin/XFree integrates with Window I will definetely remove Exceed.
Don't want to be negative here. I love Cygwin, and I use it on an every day basis and will be looking forward in using Cygwin/XFree in the future.
Teoma is trying to urge users to use query expansion techniques for enriching their queries through the "Refine Search". Query expansion works well in Information Retrieval experiments. Problem is that users are too lazy to do all that clicking (an extra couple of clicks!).
Google definetely has the technology to add some query reformulation and expansion. They just realised user laziness right from the start. That's what makes them so irresistable. Google users feel that they save time and make less effort to find stuff. A good study on this can be found in this article.
Someone at Teoma should run a query on the Kiss Principle
Pity that ufoscotland went low on cash and went offline now. You can have a look on some pictures of the "evidence" at the wayback machine archives here.
By the way, I am living in the West coast of Scotland for the last six years. I 've never seen UFOs, ghosts or Nessie :) Maybe aliens prefer beautiful Edinburgh and the Highlands.
I think the story is good for a tourist boost! Weather has been horrible last couple of months!!
Have a read on that and some other articles in the archive. I am sure you it will help you put your thoughts in some order. You can then give it a try (diplomatic one) and move the waters a bit.
Just my $0.01
In particular:
1. Do you use any Topic Detection & Tracking techniques.
2. How do you cluster news stories? Do you use a Scatter/Gather approach.
3. Is the news site going to be available through an API?