Updated: 2012-05-31 08:01:23
Short honk. The addled goose is in London. The management traffic jam at Hewlett Packard seems to be getting worse. I thought London was tangled. I read “HP Names New Software Chief, COO.” The founder of Autonomy will leaving HP, which purchased Autonomy for $10 billion or so about eight months ago. First, an HP [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 06:07:46
The Digital Librarian has reached our shores, Northern Ireland’s Sync Ni announces in “Sophia Search Discovers US Market.” Sophia Search now has several US publishing customers, including Random House, who use their newest innovation Digital Librarian to better understand the interests of their online customers. Writer Lauren McCoy describes the software: “The ‘Digital Librarian’ understands [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:11:56
As part of continuing coverage of Robert Schifreen’s SharePoint 2010 series, we’re looking at his seventh installment, “To Virtualise or not to Virtualise.” Schifreen explains the practical, detailed decisions about configuration and resources, starting with virtualization. While virtualization provides for the ability to consolidate multiple virtual guests within a single physical server by sharing the [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:09:51
One of the challenges of any product lifecycle management (PLM) platform is providing adequate training for the necessary employees. Thanks to a great product, i GET IT, employees can receive training at their own pace via software. Now, to make it even easier employees can access their materials on their personal iPhones or iPads thanks [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:08:07
If JP Morgan’s arrogance had a flavor, what would it taste like? My guess would be bitter given the loss they incurred after their recent decisions. The article The Type of Arrogance That Cost JP Morgan $7 Billion tells us that they might rediscover the benefits of being humble in the future, if a lesson [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:06:25
SlashGear puts forth an interesting angle on how Google convinced China to approve its purchase of Motorola Mobility in “Open Android—The Price for China’s Motorola Bid Approval.” Well, maybe it is a perspective on how China squeezed Google for a deal. Could happen we suppose. Is search next? Having already gotten the go-ahead from US [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:04:24
The current version of Semantic Knowledge’s Troupe is now available for Download at no cost. This useful tool has been benefiting business for over a decade and has yet to outlive its usefulness. Semantic-Knowledge has been in business since 1994 providing business consumers with the means to increase ROI with simplified Natural Language Processing software [...]
Updated: 2012-05-31 05:02:05
The LexaBlog recently posted some interesting information about popular superheroes in the article “The Avengers: Most Popular Superhero?” According to the article, writer Seth Redmore analyzed 330,000 tweets regarding the new Avengers superhero movie by sending out query topics on the main characters as well as the actors playing them. Redmore breaks the information down [...]
Updated: 2012-05-30 05:14:41
Yet another provider has moved into the semantic search house according to Ontology launches OSS/BSS intelligent semantic search app suite. This field is becoming more crowded than a frat house during a party where everyone invites a friend. With multiple companies creating their own search providers the market’s saturation is going to reach an all-time [...]
Updated: 2012-05-17 02:05:00
Oh hell yeah, it's on. Blizzard Challenge 2012 ... I dare ya ... I double dog dare ya:Blizzard Challenge 2012We'll understand if you ain't got the stones, son. Ain't everyone cut out to face a challenge. The world needs ditch diggers too.
Updated: 2012-05-12 21:28:24
[The idea behind 'zero tolerance search' posts is to illustrate real life search interactions that show how far we have to go in leveraging the explicit and implicit data in the web and elsewhere.] Yesterday, I heard part of an...
Updated: 2012-05-11 12:15:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Research on Search My study of machine learning , data mining , computational linguistics and information retrieval , towards the grand goal of developing the perfect search engine that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want Larry Page Friday , May 11, 2012 Python's handling of default parameter values Python's handling of default parameter values becomes tricky when one uses a mutable object e.g . list or dictionary as a default value . Default parameter values are evaluated when the function definition is executed . This means that the expression is evaluated once , when the function is defined , and that the same pre-computed value is used for each call . If the function modifies the object e.g . by appending an item to
Updated: 2012-05-11 09:47:00
Python actually has the splat operator (as in Perl or Ruby) that can unpack the arguments out of a list, tuple, or dictionary: func(*args), or func(**kwdargs).
Updated: 2012-05-10 19:26:00
A Computer Scientist in a Business School Random thoughts of a computer scientist who is now working behind the enemy lines . And lately he turned into a double . agent Thursday , May 10, 2012 TREC 2012 Crowdsourcing Track TREC 2012 Crowdsourcing Track Call for Participation June 2012 November 2012 https : sites.google.com site treccrowd Goals As part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST s annual Text REtrieval Conference TREC the Crowdsourcing track investigates emerging crowd-based methods for search evaluation and or developing hybrid automation and crowd search . systems This year , our goal is to evaluate approaches to crowdsourcing high quality relevance judgments for two different types of : media textual documents images For each of the two tasks ,
Updated: 2012-05-04 12:27:00
Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Great NEW SharePoint FAST Search Book Main May 04, 2012 Always wanted to build your own search engine The great news is that some really top-notch universities are beginning to offer free classes to anyone with an internet connection if you love learning , this is for you . It's also a great way to brush up on your skills . 0160 Harvard and MIT are teaming up to offer classes as are University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan through their commercial joint venture , Coursera which features classes from those two schools plus Princeton , Stanford , and . others In addition , Sebastian Thrun , the Stanford professor who last year ran an Artificial Intelligence class online that drew over
