@schahn3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates – "So, I've decided to replace myself with a shell script. In particular, I've created shell scripts for catching three problems: the passive voice, weasel words, and<br /> lexical illusions." [0811.0113] A Bayesian Framework for Opinion Updates – "Opinion Dynamics lacks a theoretical basis. [...]
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[1006.5169] Hyperbolic Geometry of Complex Networks – Interesting. Learning about Network Theory – A brief introduction, with links to resources. NetworkX v1.1 – "NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks." [1006.1786] Measuring Meaning on the World-Wide Web – A brief paper exploring [...]
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[1006.0200] The 1958 Pekeris-Accad-WEIZAC Ground-Breaking Collaboration that computed Ground States of Two-Electron Atoms (and its 2010 Redux) – Koutschan and Zeilberger examine and "re-enact" Pekeris's 1958 calculation of the ground state of the two-electron atom. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures – "This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and [...]
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Social Page Evaluator – "Our solution is designed to provide an assessment of a brand's Facebook Page value and the effectiveness of its social media efforts." SFWATER.ORG : BDPL Reliability Upgrade – Pipeline Peninsula – Project status page for the BDPL5 Peninsula project. Water System Improvement Program BDPL5Peninsula – Blog for the Bay Division Pipeline [...]
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MIT Center for Collective Intelligence – "Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?'" Online Reputation Systems: How to Design One That Does What You Need – The Magazine – MIT Sloan Management Review – Specific [...]
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Home – genetify – GitHub – A/B (vector) testing framework that uses genetic programming to optimize the test outcome. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography – "Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be [...]
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Sphinx Python Document Generator – "Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation…" stanlemon.net : jgrowl – In-browser notification messages. TipTip jQuery Plugin | Drewwilson.com – A clever tooltip plugin for jQuery. Proof that just about anything fits in a cup. – Amusing art MyWikkaSite: OpenSolaris (List of package [...]
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Create PDF thumbnails using ImageMagick on Linux | Prashanth Ellina – Useful tip if you want to render one or more PDF pages to another format. Python – Tao of Mac – A commented Python link collection, with a few I've not seen before. How to Go Winter Camping and Backpacking : Expert Advice from [...]
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Minimal Solaris: Installing OpenSolaris on a Sparc using LiveCD – Alexander's extended his earlier SPARC LiveCD to have a basic installer. Minimal Solaris: OpenSolaris Sparc snv125 LiveCD – Alexander, creator of MiLaX, has made a SPARC LiveCD, based on Build 125. 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error SXCE OpenSolaris Migration Sparc – [...]
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What to Read on North Korean Politics | Foreign Affairs – Reading list from Nicholas Eberstadt (AEI and National Bureau of Asian Research). Start – Bottle Web Framework – "Bottle is a fast and simple WSGI-framework for the Python Programming Language. It offers request dispatching with url parameter support (routes), templates, key/value databases, a build-in [...]
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Bug 6186 – OpenSolaris package renaming – Rich has been working through every package in OpenSolaris, proposing friendlier and guessable names. OGB 2009/009 ReleaseNotes – Genunix – OGB 2009/009 are the release notes for the proposed OpenSolaris constitution. The OGB's using co-ment.net for interactive comment handling on the draft as well. manifold – Project Hosting [...]
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jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library – "jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development." An Introduction to Processing.js | Design Intellection – First article in a planned six part tutorial in Processing.js. Processing 1.0 – "Processing is [...]
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Piwik # Open source web analytics – "Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more." Scribe, by Facebook – "Scribe is a server [...]
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Statistical Data Mining Tutorials Andrew Moore's "set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms."
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Swish-e :: Home Page "Simple Web Indexing System for Humans – Enhanced". Comparable to htdig.
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Hadoop Sorts a Petabyte in 16.25 Hours and a Terabyte in 62 Seconds Recent results from Yahoo!'s sorting benchmark run.
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Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Multi-Node Cluster) – Michael G. Noll A useful set of instructions on Hadoop setup and issues.
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jspdf – Google Code "jsPDF generates PDF documents using nothing but Javascript." Neat.
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OpenSolaris Live USB Creator (Windows/.NET) ?(PID0.ORG DevZone)? Hiroshi's made a Windows .NET utility that lets you burn the OpenSolaris USB image to a stick without needing to run OpenSolaris.
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” : Michal Pryc’s Weblog Michal gives another one-click example: he's made a p5i file with the base dependencies for building OpenSolaris's GNOME consolidation.
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PackageManager getting Flash : John Rice’s Weblog John gives some screenshots from our one-click install/add publisher support. Most of the sun.com properties now support .p5i files and their application/vnd.pkg5.info MIME type now, so if you want to share packages–or give an initial configuration for some examples–your users are only a click away.
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DIY: Home NAS Box with OpenSolaris and ZFS (English version) – Zhong’s weblog Zhong builds an attractive home NAS box with 2008.11 and a dual-core Atom–the 330.
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What’s in a name? That which we call an Authority… – Transitive Shawn explains why we prefer publisher to authority as a term for a producer and distributor of packages.
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Kindle Formatting Information and blog on formatting books for the Amazon Kindle. The author runs a consulting service; site contains his tips, etc.
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