 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Ho John Lee
Technologist, entrepreneur, musician, investor, trader, parent, soccer coach. Living at the intersection of technology, finance, culture and markets.
Off course - November 2009 - Armed Forces Journal - Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy - http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2009...
"Some analysts suspect that Somali pirates used AIS to locate and hijack the 1,000-foot supertanker Sirius Star, which was transiting 450 miles off the coast of Kenya in November 2008 when it was hijacked and taken to Somalia. The Liberian-flagged vessel, which is owned by Aramco in Saudi Arabia, was carrying 25 seafarers and more than $100 million in oil cargo bound for the U.S. For many areas, however, particularly near the restricted entrances to congested ports and harbors, the AIS provisions of SOLAS are an important component for strengthening maritime situational awareness."
- Ho John Lee
RT @NavalWarCollege: The dark side of tracking all shipping: Pirates can do it too [Armed Forces Journal] http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2009...
brace - a python-like variant of C - http://sam.nipl.net/brace/
Brace is a dialect of C that looks like Python. Brace has coroutines, hygenic macros, header generation, #! scripting and cached executables, and libraries with graphics and sound. Brace runs on GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, GNU/Hurd, MinGW/Windows, and Mac OS X with X11 (hopefully). Brace translates (fairly) cleanly into C.
- Ho John Lee
Zero Intelligence Agents » Network of People who Twitter about R - http://www.drewconway.com/zia...
Sample of some social network analysis using R. "The figure below is the 2-core of the full network. As you might imagine, the full network is quite large, but the vast majority of nodes are pendants; therefore, visualizing the 2-core is much more useful. Those that twittered with #rstats are in red and labeled, while all of the intervening nodes are in blue."
- Ho John Lee
RT @dataspora: Visualizing a Twitter hash tag network http://www.drewconway.com/zia... #rstats + upcoming R talk at LinkedIn http://www.meetup.com/R-Users...
Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions - http://marinetraffic.com/ais/
Google Maps + marine traffic updates for ship positions worldwide, with some gaps (missing Alaska, Korea, and India among others). US, Europe, Japan covered.
- Ho John Lee
How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup - http://kevindewalt.com/blog...
Unlike in established companies where the problem is known, and the focus can be on optimizing a solution, in startups both the solution and the problem are unknown. Startups don’t know if they have sufficiently defined the problem and the solution until customers vote with their wallets.
- Ho John Lee
NLTK Data - http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn...
Collection of datasets for use with Python NLTK natural language library.
- Ho John Lee
Gave to the Creative Commons 2009 campaign https://support.creativecommons.org/pcp... + got matching donations from Canonical http://creativecommons.org/weblog... and Microsoft
@searchtools_avi thanks for noticing. We try harder. RT twitter search can't find the previous tweet, http://www.bing.com/twitter finds it!
Mmm. Triple-chocolate mousse cake from my SVC friends. Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! http://tweetphoto.com/xbs1aclf
@lizasperling Fun Fact - each text entity expands to ~50 semantic terms, indexing needs more crunch than regular search, gets better results
.@lizasperling funny timing - I just got back from a lunch talk by Scott Prevost from Powerset on what's coming for semantic search on Bing.
Back from rodizio at Pampas. Mass quantities of grilled lamb, filet, and pineapple. Plus bacon. Some ppl may have meat hangovers tomorrow.
Power has been on/off due to outage in Mtn View. Meanwhile, I'm at W3C Social Web in Santa Clara. Breakouts on Salmon, FOAF #socialwebsc
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) liked this
Dennis Yu on past and present practices of social game ad incentives and monetization.
- Ho John Lee
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - http://xkcd.com/657/
Timeline visualizations of characters and plot in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc.
- Ho John Lee
RT @gerster: Seriously excellent XKCD today: http://xkcd.com/657/ (seems like we'll eventually end up with personalized versions of these...)
Back for last sessions at Data Mining Camp. Was good to meet @peteskomoroch and @kevinweil in person, also running into @lyndonwong. #dmcamp
Palo Alto Flash v Stanford Cyclones, final 2-0 in a rematch, last time tied 1-1. Girls improving using width and challenging quickly.
Full house at @hackerdojo for Data Mining Camp. Many petabytes collectively analyzed by folks here! #dmcamp http://tweetphoto.com/xbs1abje
Other ways to read this feed: