Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Today was a definitely a lucky day; I barely made it for the flight from Ontario airport and even though my baggage was tagged “late check-in”, it still arrived with me to Vegas. Rob Walling and I got to Mandalay Bay around 8:45 and after a smooth registration, we were all set for our pre-conference…
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull;therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague" -Edsger Dijkstra Dijkstra's Manuscripts - a CS must read.http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
Why, why, why! Because it's all logic and reason now. Science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that, and the other. No place for three-legged cyclops in the South Seas. No place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me. -Baron Munchausen
This is the title of Robert Anderson and Daniel Ciruli’s article in November’s Dr. Dobbs Journal which explores the other dimension of loosely coupled systems being distributed across the grid. They have discussed topics like scalability in terms of CPU load, network load balancing and mainly how service oriented architecture can be leveraged by a…
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Wild Card based domain searchhttp://www.ratite.com/whois/whois.cgi Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability online video oriented course (free)http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/data/ Dr. Dobbs ASP.NET Cross-Page Postbacks Scott takes a look at ASP.NET cross-page postbacks. In ASP.NET 2.0, it's easy to build a form on one page and post the information returned to a different page. MSR Turned 15http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/15years/default.aspx Grid Computing: Powers…
Via Reza Seraji A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads
If it walks like a duck, talks [sic] like a duck, it must be a duck. -Neal Hardesty on Duck typing Do they sell food at grocery store? -Tim Oliver “It’s my pet peeve but why do people get all hyped up when Google does something? Code search for example, Koders has been doing it…
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is an excellent piece of virtualization software. After successfully deploying Ubuntu, Knoppix, different flavours of windows, I finally tried Windows Vista on Virtual Server last week and it worked like a charm. With Virtual Server browser activeX, you can have your windows Vista running in a browser, that's crazy talk!
Call For Papers Novel Applications of Dimensionality Reductionhttp://www.seas.upenn.edu/~kilianw/nldrworkshop06 Workshop held at the 20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006) Whistler, CANADA:…