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Yuhong worries about CS students. She points to two recent articles on the CS job market: Endangered species: US programmers (David R. Francis ,The Christian Science Monitor ,October 14, 2004) Study finds dramatic loss of tech jobs (Ed Frauenheim, CNET News, October 18, 2004) Here is what she has…
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Harold has another great post, this time he lists some of the tangible benefits of blogging, for him… After an intensive year online, these are the tangible benefits to my business: Using a feed reader (via RSS), saves a lot of time and bookmarking. The information I get from bloggers is…
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From British Columbia comes Open Source Academic Publishing Software
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It seems like a bunch of schools in British Columbia got together to develop open source academic publishing software. The University of British Columbia’s Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Simon Fraser University Library and SFU’s Canadian Center for Studies in Publishing (CCSP) have formed…
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Market Diversification by jarche.com
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Harold has a good post on Market Diversification: In Canada, we continue to focus almost exclusively on exporting to the US. As Godfrey puts it, Wal*Mart does more business with China than all of Canada does. The business development strategies that I see presented at every “innovation” forum…
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Geomblog gives a rather pessimistic view of scientific conferences: And so the implicit content of many a conference paper is not, as one might think, “Here is my research.” Rather, it is: “Here am I, qualified and capable, performing this role, which all of us here share, and none of us…
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From now on, all trackbacks to this blog are moderated thanks to the moderate-trackbacks plugins. Spammers have really a lot of time to waste. Good thing the wordpress community is very strong and fighting back. Now, the simplest thing is: do not to use trackback. It is a weak protocol (in a spam…
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KDD 2005 (February 18, 2005 / August 21-24, 2005)
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Here’s a quick guide to upgrading or modifying your kernel under gentoo. I assume you have genkernel installed (do “emerge genkernel”). First of all, if you only want to add or remove elements to your kernel, or change options, you can do this as root: genkernel --no-clean --menuconfig…
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The KDD 2005 calls for papers are out. Among other things, there is an industry track.
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Things are getting somewhat better in Java land. You can no do some XPath work in Java, see this sample code I wrote this morning (it is not standalone though): String xpathexpression = "//xdoc[dtd!='']/fname/text()"; XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); …
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After several requests, I made the code available in plain text for the technical report Implementing a Rating-Based Item-to-Item Recommender System in PHP/SQL. As an added bonus, Matt Gersting ported the code succesfully in Cold Fusion. I don’t know whether he will make it available or allow me…
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Code in plain text for “Implementing a Rating-Based Item-to-Item Recommender System in PHP/SQL”
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Today was my birthday. I’m old, or at least, getting older. Why is my wife so great? Well, she is beautiful, a great mom and very smart. Also, she gave me a MP3 player today: that’s right, I got a nice Benq Joybee 110. I’m very happy. Back to the serious stuff. When you get such a device, you…
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Project Gutenberg is a fantastic project where a large collection of books has been scanned and made available for free. The problem has been that they are available as text which makes automated processing sometimes a problem. Extracting the title of a book can be a problem (though an easy one).…
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Making RedHat Enterprise usable
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I’ve been looking for a tool that can take a Word document (any Word document) and transform it into clean XHTML document. Turns out I had such a tool already: recent versions of Kword do it!
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As part of our blog project, I found out that RedHat Enterprise was a really locked up distribution. However, the nice people at CERN make available apt for RedHat. A very useful tool! All you have to do to update your machine is to use apt-get. I would go with gentoo, but if you need RedHat…
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Hard problems and hot coffee