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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:46:32 -0800

How lotteries like Spain’s El Gordo enhance social ties
The economist has an article, Gamblers united, on Spain’s lotteries, like El Gordo (“the Fatty”) will will pay out...
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:18:15 -0800

Spamassassin 2010 bug
Shades of Y2K! Mike Cardwell reports on a rule in Spamassassin that judges any message sent in or after 2010 as “grossly...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:29:48 -0800

UMBC wins 2009 Pan-Am College Chess Tournament
UMBC won the 2009 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship yesterday with perfect score of 6.0 points. This...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:01:15 -0800

Learning to love your robot
The new Scientist has an article, Learning to love to hate robots, on recent research on how humans and robots interact and...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:52:01 -0800

Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army
TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is down due to an attack by someone claiming to be part of the ‘Iranian Cyber...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:52:05 -0800

foaf:mbox_sha1sum considered harmful
The foaf:mbox property is very useful since it is ‘inverse functional’ and can thus serve as an ID for a foaf...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:27:27 -0800

Mathematical model predicts insurgent attacks
Mathematical model predicts insurgent attacks A paper just published in Nature, Common ecology quantifies human insurgency,...
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novaspivack posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:44:13 -0800

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My blog has moved to a new URL: NovaSpivack.com Please update your RSS subscription (RSS is now working properly on the new...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:44:13 -0800

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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:39:15 -0800

Stanford AI pioneers reunite
Today’s NYT has a short essay by John Markoff, Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite, on a recent reunion...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:16:44 -0800

MIT team finds 10 red balloons, wins DARPA network challenge
Game over. DARPA has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the DARPA Network Challenge and its $40,000 prize....
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:41:15 -0800

MySpace in the digital Cambrian period
Financial Times has a long article describing the The rise and fall of MySpace. It’s a story full of bad timing, missed...
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novaspivack posted a blog entry

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:58 -0800

This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com
I have moved my blog to http://novaspivack.com (also http://www.mindingtheplanet.net) All my new articles and content will be...
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novaspivack posted a blog entry

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:58 -0800

This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com

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novaspivack posted a blog entry

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:58 -0800

This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com
I have moved my blog to http://novaspivack.com (also http://www.mindingtheplanet.net) All my new articles and content will be...
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:58 -0800

This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com

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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:50:39 -0800

Twitter API enables geotagging
Twitter turned on its API for geotagging tweets yesterday, as announce in in a post on their blog, Think Globally, Tweet...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:53:38 -0800

XKCD on the difference between academia and business

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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:10 -0800

XKCD on elections and voting
Around here we prefer range voting to approval voting or IRV.
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:15:32 -0800

A review of Googles Go programming language
Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer who’s written a long, detailed and informed review of Google’s new...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:21:59 -0800

CFP: JWS special issue on semantic search
Yong Yu and Rudi Studer are editing a special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on semantic search that will appear in the...
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TimFinin posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:23 -0800

Google VP on semantic search and the Semantic Web
PCWorld has a story, Google VP Mayer Describes the Perfect Search Engine, with some interesting comments on semantic search...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:54:43 -0800

Can cloud computing be entirely trusted?
The Economist has been running a series of online Oxford Union style debates on topical issues — CEO pay, healthcare,...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:24:17 -0800

Follow the Journal of Web Semantics on facebook and twitter
The Journal of Web Semantics now has a facebook page and a Twitter account to augment its blog. All three will be used for...
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:51 -0800

RPI exports data.gov information as linked data
UMBC alumnus Joab Jackson has an article in Government Computer News, Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off,...
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