Anand Rajaraman describes a group of students eschewing complicated movie data-mining algorithms in favour of a simple, effective alternative tactic: comparing their data with additional information from the IMDB website.
In the same post, he compares this with Google’s great leap forward in the late nineties: the inclusion of hyperlink counts and anchor text recognition in […]
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Shifting paradigms
April 3, 2008 – 11:12 pm
On the problem of configuring a server.
April 3, 2008 – 6:57 pm
Building a server from scratch is hardly trivial, and I’m far from an expert in the finer points of the art. And since the implications of getting it wrong don’t bear considering for too long, getting the right information is crucial. Enter Slicehost’s series of in-depth tutorials.
I heartily applaud the philosophy of gentle guidance which […]
And, so…
April 1, 2008 – 5:57 pm
An experiment writing a blog! As with most decisions I make, I will err on the side of my own experience. I read blogs only for reasons related to coding; usually when struggling with problems of which others have been thoughtful enough to share their knowledge. And to a slightly lesser extent, to inform me […]