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Quick links 25 Jun 2013 | 03:45 am
What has caught my attention lately: Lots of frequently updated, high resolution satellite images + automated object detection at massive scale = crazy cool and scary results ([1] [2] [3]) "Large da...
Blogging is dead, but have we fixed anything? 9 May 2013 | 02:25 am
Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by professional journalists, writers backed by major organizations, o...
Blogging is dead, but have we fixed anything? 9 May 2013 | 02:25 am
Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by professional journalists, writers backed by major organizations, o...
More quick links 30 Apr 2013 | 03:57 am
Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to...
More quick links 30 Apr 2013 | 03:57 am
Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to...
Quick links 7 Feb 2013 | 08:27 am
It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention: First Netflix wanted to be Blockbuster (DVDs), then a replacement for c...
Quick links 7 Feb 2013 | 08:27 am
It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention: First Netflix wanted to be Blockbuster (DVDs), then a replacement for c...
Kids, programming, and doing more 8 Jan 2013 | 06:55 am
I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful tool. They let you do things that would be hard or impossible wi...
Kids, programming, and doing more 8 Jan 2013 | 06:55 am
I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful tool. They let you do things that would be hard or impossible wi...
Google and the right database for the job 6 Dec 2012 | 10:58 pm
I finally got a chance to read "Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB 2012 conference. It describes the rather cool PowerDrill column-orient...