This sounds more like work then "an amusement or pastime" which games usually are. To be honest, even if I had the skill to play at that level I don't think I would want to since I like to play games in spare time. What do these guys do in their spare time if any... code?
I must admit I myself have done the same thing. I realised my reliance on Google a few years ago and tried to use alternatives more most of my search needs, and then in a fix compare against Google results. The problem I found was that Google presents a single view of the web that while it may seem accurate isn't the whole picture. People would say to me "If Google can't find it then it dosn't exist", and then be surprised when I said I found it using Yahoo, Gigablast or Live.
Bring on more competitive search engines. If nothing else it will force Google to innovate because I don't see their current interface being the best view into the web.
I just did this myself. I ended up just shooting for cheap hardware on the theory that if it breaks in 2 years I can just replace it. I have a Quad Core Phernom with 8 gig of RAM and two 750gig drives. Chucked VMWare on it and havent had any issues running about 8 or so VM's on it. It also serves up media using TVersity and is a network share dump as well.
The biggest issue I have had so far, is Disk Driver perfomance. If you are planning on running multiple concurrent VM's then go for as many HDD's as you can. Stick the most load intensive ones on seperate drives and you will really see the benefits.
Please everyone who is not in Australia or an Australian help distribute this list. Conroy (the arsehat behind the whole thing) has said he will hunt down any aussie who helps destribute the list.
+1
University/Collage will not teach you syntax coding (beyond enough to get you started). Knowing the syntax for a dozen languages isnt really that impressive when you realise they are similar.
The PS3 is the most open console on the market right now. Not only can you install alternate OS's you can develop for it without having to buy a license or even run Windows (looking at you Xbox + Visual Studio).
Yes the video is locked down, but you can somewhat understand their point of view there (although personally I disagree with it).
But anyway saying Sony dosnt let you use the hardware as you want is asinine.
I have often said that if there was a remake of FF7 I would buy whatever system is required to play it. I love that game to bits. I still have my orginal PS disks and may just fire it up again tonight.
I disagree. You need to know what people are searching for and then clicking on in order to improve your algorithm. Thats just common sense. If people are searching for "google" and then clicking on link number 17 in your result set then it should probably be moved up a bit.
Ah so there is. Odd... the MS representative was trying to sell us on Silverlight because of its implementation of Deepzoom. I didn't even know there was a javascript version avaliable.
The most interesting thing is that Seadragon must use Javascript or something similar but not Silverlight for the deep zoom it provides.... I just came out of a Silverlight presentation and deepzoom was hailed as its party piece... hmmm
Trust me when I say the majority of aussies are pissed off about this stuff. Just yesterday I was talking with workmates and we all agreed that iiNet are awesome for telling the Government and Film studios where they can stick their filter (which they are implementing to show that it wont work) and sue the pants off everyone.
True, but not quite the point. The map and reduce functions as you say are implemented in python (and a great many other languages), but what makes MapReduce special is that you replace the Map function with one which distributes it out to other computers. Because any map function can be implemented in parallel you get a speed boost for however many machines you have (dependant on network speeds etc....).
So yeah, you can do it in Python but you arent going to be breaking any records untill you implement your own infrastructure that lets you span it out to thousands of computers. The nice thing being you dont need to write any new code to take advantage of the speed when you do.
It doesn't make a difference. If you are using the same account for scoring then you are using the same account for the recommendations. So if the algorithm suggests something your wife will like but you don't it is still successful because for the account in general it gave a good match.
Besides, you can actually look into the data more deeply and find accounts like this (not too difficult) and vary your scoring weights to improve accuracy for other people.
It's actually not that hard to build an algorithm which works well. Following a demonstration at TechEd I built my own implementation using Python in about 2 hours (using a vector space algorithm) or so with reasonable results. The problem is that it is very difficult to win the prize.
The best thing about it is that you get a lot of data to play with. If you are interested in parallel algorithms and large data sets give it a go. Its surprisingly interesting and sucks you in. In fact I might go play with it now.
What really ticked me off about the proposal by the Rudd Government was that they said they would bring everyone on to a 10 mbit connection. WTF? If you are going to spend 5 billion dollars of taxpayer money, and build new infrastructure anyway why not shoot for 1000 mbit connections for everyone? Whats the point in aiming so low that in 5 years time it wont matter if you succeed anyway?
Ultimately I never thought it would go through. To those in the USA, if you think your Telcos are bad, you need to come to grips with the ultimate in evil and greed that is Telstra.
You think being stared at in Dalian is bad. Try going to places with less contact with foreigners. I remember walking down the street once and having a whole busload of people including the driver all staring at me.
I lived in China for about 2 years and belive me stuff is blocked. At first it dosn't feel like it but as time goes on it is noticable. Wikipedia fluctuated between blocked and unblocked, the BBC was always blocked, CNN would go down from time to time, any home resolver DNS was blocked. Interestingly the Chinese guys I worked with used to complain quite a lot about blocked stuff.
So while you might not have experienced it in the short term belive me it happens. What was interesting was the censorship of the news there. I was watching CNN discuss how Google was going to filter the internet and then... tv went blank. At the time I was thinking this was an imprompture time for the tv to die. Checked another channel and it was working fine. CNN came back long after the feature was over. It was at that point I was reminded that I was in a Communist country, because honestly after being there for a while you really forget about it.
What if you perform your evil deeds inside a vitrual machine which lives in an encrypted truecrypt drive.
I suspect this would solve many of the problems since everything that virtual machine knows about is encrypted.
I seriously doubt google or anyone else has enough computing power to pull this off in real time. My guess is it would take several hours at least to run through any amount of images to make it worthwhile. It would be useful, but the scale of the problem is too large to be practical.
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This sounds more like work then "an amusement or pastime" which games usually are. To be honest, even if I had the skill to play at that level I don't think I would want to since I like to play games in spare time. What do these guys do in their spare time if any... code?
Not in countries like Australia. Down here Paypal is pretty much all we have.
Me. I paid $10 for it never planning on playing it either. I do hope this model works out.
I must admit I myself have done the same thing. I realised my reliance on Google a few years ago and tried to use alternatives more most of my search needs, and then in a fix compare against Google results. The problem I found was that Google presents a single view of the web that while it may seem accurate isn't the whole picture. People would say to me "If Google can't find it then it dosn't exist", and then be surprised when I said I found it using Yahoo, Gigablast or Live.
Bring on more competitive search engines. If nothing else it will force Google to innovate because I don't see their current interface being the best view into the web.
I just did this myself. I ended up just shooting for cheap hardware on the theory that if it breaks in 2 years I can just replace it. I have a Quad Core Phernom with 8 gig of RAM and two 750gig drives. Chucked VMWare on it and havent had any issues running about 8 or so VM's on it. It also serves up media using TVersity and is a network share dump as well.
The biggest issue I have had so far, is Disk Driver perfomance. If you are planning on running multiple concurrent VM's then go for as many HDD's as you can. Stick the most load intensive ones on seperate drives and you will really see the benefits.
Please everyone who is not in Australia or an Australian help distribute this list. Conroy (the arsehat behind the whole thing) has said he will hunt down any aussie who helps destribute the list.
+1 University/Collage will not teach you syntax coding (beyond enough to get you started). Knowing the syntax for a dozen languages isnt really that impressive when you realise they are similar.
The PS3 is the most open console on the market right now. Not only can you install alternate OS's you can develop for it without having to buy a license or even run Windows (looking at you Xbox + Visual Studio). Yes the video is locked down, but you can somewhat understand their point of view there (although personally I disagree with it). But anyway saying Sony dosnt let you use the hardware as you want is asinine.
I have often said that if there was a remake of FF7 I would buy whatever system is required to play it. I love that game to bits. I still have my orginal PS disks and may just fire it up again tonight.
It won't. I have tired it myself on a few occasions and it never worked :(
Thats what I did. I added an extra field which you need to enter the word "fatty" into. I went from 200 spam comments a day to 0.
I disagree. You need to know what people are searching for and then clicking on in order to improve your algorithm. Thats just common sense. If people are searching for "google" and then clicking on link number 17 in your result set then it should probably be moved up a bit.
Ah so there is. Odd... the MS representative was trying to sell us on Silverlight because of its implementation of Deepzoom. I didn't even know there was a javascript version avaliable.
The most interesting thing is that Seadragon must use Javascript or something similar but not Silverlight for the deep zoom it provides.... I just came out of a Silverlight presentation and deepzoom was hailed as its party piece... hmmm
Trust me when I say the majority of aussies are pissed off about this stuff. Just yesterday I was talking with workmates and we all agreed that iiNet are awesome for telling the Government and Film studios where they can stick their filter (which they are implementing to show that it wont work) and sue the pants off everyone.
True, but not quite the point. The map and reduce functions as you say are implemented in python (and a great many other languages), but what makes MapReduce special is that you replace the Map function with one which distributes it out to other computers. Because any map function can be implemented in parallel you get a speed boost for however many machines you have (dependant on network speeds etc....).
So yeah, you can do it in Python but you arent going to be breaking any records untill you implement your own infrastructure that lets you span it out to thousands of computers. The nice thing being you dont need to write any new code to take advantage of the speed when you do.
It doesn't make a difference. If you are using the same account for scoring then you are using the same account for the recommendations. So if the algorithm suggests something your wife will like but you don't it is still successful because for the account in general it gave a good match. Besides, you can actually look into the data more deeply and find accounts like this (not too difficult) and vary your scoring weights to improve accuracy for other people.
You and your dirty mind. Then again large amounts of data is pretty sexy...
It's actually not that hard to build an algorithm which works well. Following a demonstration at TechEd I built my own implementation using Python in about 2 hours (using a vector space algorithm) or so with reasonable results. The problem is that it is very difficult to win the prize.
The best thing about it is that you get a lot of data to play with. If you are interested in parallel algorithms and large data sets give it a go. Its surprisingly interesting and sucks you in. In fact I might go play with it now.
What really ticked me off about the proposal by the Rudd Government was that they said they would bring everyone on to a 10 mbit connection. WTF? If you are going to spend 5 billion dollars of taxpayer money, and build new infrastructure anyway why not shoot for 1000 mbit connections for everyone? Whats the point in aiming so low that in 5 years time it wont matter if you succeed anyway?
Ultimately I never thought it would go through. To those in the USA, if you think your Telcos are bad, you need to come to grips with the ultimate in evil and greed that is Telstra.
Because some countries don't offer you the choice. Besides, if it was the Eee 1000 then you get a bigger HDD with Windows then Linux.
You think being stared at in Dalian is bad. Try going to places with less contact with foreigners. I remember walking down the street once and having a whole busload of people including the driver all staring at me.
I lived in China for about 2 years and belive me stuff is blocked. At first it dosn't feel like it but as time goes on it is noticable. Wikipedia fluctuated between blocked and unblocked, the BBC was always blocked, CNN would go down from time to time, any home resolver DNS was blocked. Interestingly the Chinese guys I worked with used to complain quite a lot about blocked stuff.
So while you might not have experienced it in the short term belive me it happens. What was interesting was the censorship of the news there. I was watching CNN discuss how Google was going to filter the internet and then... tv went blank. At the time I was thinking this was an imprompture time for the tv to die. Checked another channel and it was working fine. CNN came back long after the feature was over. It was at that point I was reminded that I was in a Communist country, because honestly after being there for a while you really forget about it.
What if you perform your evil deeds inside a vitrual machine which lives in an encrypted truecrypt drive. I suspect this would solve many of the problems since everything that virtual machine knows about is encrypted.
I seriously doubt google or anyone else has enough computing power to pull this off in real time. My guess is it would take several hours at least to run through any amount of images to make it worthwhile. It would be useful, but the scale of the problem is too large to be practical.