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Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire

Computer Science professor at UQAM: Web, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Databases, Time Series, Collaborative Filtering, Information Retrieval, e-Learning.
@pabloduboue Forcing people into Open Research would be like forcing my colleagues into using Twitter. Bad way.
"Cool. I’ll know where to look if I need such inequalities! (Alas, in my research, I always end up with unknown or custom distributions.)" - Daniel Lemire
Tragedy of the anti-commons - http://www.johndcook.com/blog...
The mathematical research landscape http://abstrusegoose.com/211 (via @mdreid)
growing evidence that homework may hinder more than help http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...
Compressing column-oriented indexes - http://www.slideshare.net/lemire...
Compressing column-oriented indexes
yesterday's technology for work, today's technology for everything else http://online.wsj.com/article... (via @sebpaquet)
Montreal, a great city... the Facebook way http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via @sebpaquet)
Montreal, a great city... the Facebook way http://bit.ly/48yDEk (via @sebpaquet)
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Office 2007 documents are zipped XML - http://www.johndcook.com/blog...
"I believe this storage format was initiated by OpenOffice (actually Sun Microsystems)." - Daniel Lemire
@mdreid I am pretty sure you can also run vi in full screen.
@lemeshko There is plenty of fraud in Computer Science. The difference is that nobody cares.
RT @alex77 could these frauds even be *found* in computer science research? Doesn't seem like we have a high standard for deep review.
RT @michael_nielsen: Steven Pinker with his usual sharp wit on technology http://www.edge.org/3rd_cul...
Another case of scientific fraud - http://lemeshko.blogspot.com/2009...
Ma favorite beer these days (and I am not alone to like it): Péché Mortel http://beeradvocate.com/beer...
Why experts are morons: a recipe for academic success http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2009... (via @JohnDCook)
Put that database in memory - http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009...
Odd. I'm a long-time PC member for WEBIST, but I was not given *any* paper to review this year, maybe none match my expertise...?
Leonard Mlodinow on Wine Experts - http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009...
RT @sebpaquet: Electricity wasn't discovered by trying to improve the candle. #quote via @zecool
It a sad testimonial that you need NASA to tell you the world's not going to end http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
Good tweets this week from @sebpaquet and @fortnow #FollowFriday (also welcome to @greglinden)
"Congratulations. I hope you will tell us more about your research in the future." - Daniel Lemire
Data Mining (Fall 2009) by Cosma Shalizi - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshal...
New blog post: Procrastination can be your friend http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog...
I did not pay close attention to what the crazy-boring colleague was saying, but I was respectful. http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2009...
"Gotos, C++, Fortran, really small fonts… you are going to give me nightmares." - Daniel Lemire
Just realized that it is hard to relate to sad love stories: have been with the greatest woman of the whole world for well over 10 years...
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