FTFS: The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.'
It's a sad day when we don't even bother reading the SUMMARY any more.
Actually, Netflix used a different way to prevent gaming the system. They split the submitted predictions into two sets - the "quiz" set and the "test" set. The quiz set results are on the leaderboard; the test set is used for final judging.
Many teams actually combined multiple methods to get a better score. In fact, "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" is a combination of three teams, I'm guessing - BellKor, BigChaos and Pragmatic Theory.
Also, it helps to remember that what's posted on the leaderboard is the result of the "quiz" set - half of the actual set of recommendations you're asked to make. The other half, the "test set," is used for final judging. With such a small difference between BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble on the quiz set (.0001 RMSE), the test set rank may actually end up reversed.
It's *not* open-source, but it IS inexpensive. When I worked at a NOC, we used it to monitor hundreds of routers, switches, mainframes, Tandem systems, UNIX boxes, etc. It takes SNMP traps and displays them graphically on a 2D map, and the 2D map is very nicely implemented. You can have your top level view made up only of groups of devices, so if a group goes red you double-click that group to view its members and see which device actually has the error. IIRC, you can nest groups, so it ends up being a fairly scalable solution when you talk about screen space.
You can also run simulations without actual human participants. Searching SourceForge for "game theory" turns up several toolkits and libraries that may be useful in that.
I was at Cambridge Brewing Co. in Boston a few years ago when they rolled out a one-batch beer called Ninkasi, brewed with sourdough bread yeast from an Egyptian bakery that had been culturing it continuously for over a millenium. It was delicious.
Don't get me wrong, I *love* reCAPTCHA. They do good work on multiple fronts. I'm more pointing out the inconsistency in the article.
I like how reCAPTCHA is the recommendation...
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...even though CraigsList uses reCAPTCHA and the article talks about a utility that helps spammers automatically post on CL.
Besides, it's fairly easy to set up a Mechanical Turk HIT for users to solve CAPTCHAs for a penny a piece. Assuming you make more than a penny per captcha solved, you're set. If not, make someone successfully solve more than one CAPTCHA per HIT submission.
I think it's actually referring to S-BGP. I also thought it was just the MD5 signature option, but it's not.
Then again, one of the comments in TFA is that it won't require any new software or hardware to be installed, so maybe it IS just the MD5 option. The features didn't sound like it; it sounded like they were establishing a whole PKI.
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FTFS: The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.'
It's a sad day when we don't even bother reading the SUMMARY any more.
And that's a holdover from CP/M days.
Actually, Netflix used a different way to prevent gaming the system. They split the submitted predictions into two sets - the "quiz" set and the "test" set. The quiz set results are on the leaderboard; the test set is used for final judging.
Many teams actually combined multiple methods to get a better score. In fact, "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" is a combination of three teams, I'm guessing - BellKor, BigChaos and Pragmatic Theory.
Also, it helps to remember that what's posted on the leaderboard is the result of the "quiz" set - half of the actual set of recommendations you're asked to make. The other half, the "test set," is used for final judging. With such a small difference between BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble on the quiz set (.0001 RMSE), the test set rank may actually end up reversed.
No worries, Sickipedia already has coverage of the story.
It's *not* open-source, but it IS inexpensive. When I worked at a NOC, we used it to monitor hundreds of routers, switches, mainframes, Tandem systems, UNIX boxes, etc. It takes SNMP traps and displays them graphically on a 2D map, and the 2D map is very nicely implemented. You can have your top level view made up only of groups of devices, so if a group goes red you double-click that group to view its members and see which device actually has the error. IIRC, you can nest groups, so it ends up being a fairly scalable solution when you talk about screen space.
I think HBase 0.20 is being released today as well, with a new and much faster file format, better memory management and better availability.
Was I the only one who immediately thought of a cumshot upon reading the title?
Nope. First thing I thought of was the sound of beer as it's being poured. My mind goes to a totally different gutter. :(
I lived in London, KY for a few months. That's where Sprint Wireless billing and customer service is located. That town really is hell.
You can also run simulations without actual human participants. Searching SourceForge for "game theory" turns up several toolkits and libraries that may be useful in that.
This could be a space- and capital-efficient way to have many memcache servers. That was my first thought when I saw this.
Good idea. Especially if the laptop already has IR - some of the nicer media laptops do.
The "Perens Scabies?"
That sounds marketable!
I2P. It works well as long as *enough* people port-forward, but it doesn't require port-forwarding from any specific individual.
That paper's from 1997, and focuses on proximity to metro area, gender, race and education level, whereas the new one focuses on state of residency.
Seriously... isn't there some sort of quorum rule in the French parliament or something?
Can you please tune to CNBC and DVR the stock ticker for me tomorrow afternoon? I want recession spoilers.
I was at Cambridge Brewing Co. in Boston a few years ago when they rolled out a one-batch beer called Ninkasi, brewed with sourdough bread yeast from an Egyptian bakery that had been culturing it continuously for over a millenium. It was delicious.
Another application: weight loss. An implant that lets donuts power your wearable computing devices instead of your gut? Sign me up.
The trick is to get women addicted to nerds.
Uh. They have.
Don't get me wrong, I *love* reCAPTCHA. They do good work on multiple fronts. I'm more pointing out the inconsistency in the article.
...even though CraigsList uses reCAPTCHA and the article talks about a utility that helps spammers automatically post on CL.
Besides, it's fairly easy to set up a Mechanical Turk HIT for users to solve CAPTCHAs for a penny a piece. Assuming you make more than a penny per captcha solved, you're set. If not, make someone successfully solve more than one CAPTCHA per HIT submission.
I think it's actually referring to S-BGP. I also thought it was just the MD5 signature option, but it's not.
Then again, one of the comments in TFA is that it won't require any new software or hardware to be installed, so maybe it IS just the MD5 option. The features didn't sound like it; it sounded like they were establishing a whole PKI.
You might have heard or felt that there is little left to patent these days...
No, not so much. On the contrary, I think we're accelerating happily toward the Singularity and new inventions are very much part of that trend.