Here are a dodecahedron (left) and icosahedron (right) made from Zometool pieces.These figures are duals of each other: If you put a vertex in...
0 replies - 1718 views - 11/23/12 by John Cook in Articles
Last night I was taken to the London premier of Warren Miller’s
latest film called “Flow State”. Free beers, a free goodie bag and an
hour and...
0 replies - 3414 views - 11/22/12 by James Betteley in Articles
In my previous post, I described how to extract second- and top-level domains from a URL in Java.Now, I'll build a Lucene Tokenizer out of it, and a Solr...
0 replies - 2626 views - 11/22/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
For the purpose of building prediction models in tennis markets, I've developed a Bayesian inference engine in Scala. One of tutorials I wrote on this tool is...
0 replies - 3340 views - 11/21/12 by Daniel Korzekwa in Articles
Dmitriy Setrakyan recently provided an excellent explanation for In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) -- now I'll try to provide a similar...
0 replies - 3903 views - 11/21/12 by Nikita Ivanov in Articles
A talk from Denis Sheahan on Netflix's Cassandra Architecture and Open Source efforts. Presented on 28 March 2012 in Cassandra Europe.
This presentation...
0 replies - 345 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized
Sean Owen from the Mahout project (& Pentech VC,) at the 2nd BigData London meetup.
0 replies - 278 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized
The bridge pattern is a design pattern used in software engineering
which is meant to "decouple an abstraction from its implementation so
that...
2 replies - 5151 views - 11/20/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles
I occasionally get a comments from people who see “log” in one of my posts and think “log base 10.” They’ll say they get a different result than I do...
2 replies - 3792 views - 11/20/12 by John Cook in Articles
When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details...
0 replies - 2435 views - 11/20/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles
As a warm up for SCNA, the Chicago Software Craftsmanship Community
ran a hands-on coding session where developers, working in pairs,
should test...
0 replies - 1674 views - 11/19/12 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
Recommendation systems seek to predict the 'rating' or 'preference' that a user would give to an item (such as music, books, or movies) or social element (e.g....
0 replies - 11415 views - 11/19/12 by Nishant Chandra in Articles
It turns out that extracting second- and top-level domains is not a simple task, the primary difficulty being that in addition to the usual suspects (.com .org...
0 replies - 2206 views - 11/19/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
John Johnson did an analysis of the statistics blogosphere for the Coursera Social Networking Analysis class. His blog post about the analysis lists...
0 replies - 2402 views - 11/18/12 by John Cook in Articles
ShellJS
is a portable (**Windows included**) implementation of Unix shell
commands on top of the Node.js API. You can use it to eliminate your
shell...
0 replies - 3362 views - 11/18/12 by Hirvesh Munogee in Articles
