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Daniel Lemire
Computer Scientist and Open Scholar: Web, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Databases, Time Series, Collaborative Filtering, Information Retrieval, e-Learning.
Fascinating essay on Star Trek in the social web era by @catvalente: http://www.antipope.org/charlie...
Who are the leading researchers who have committed to publishing exclusively in open access venues? Answer: http://www.quora.com/Who-are...
CFP: Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing and its Philosophical Significance https://t.co/26tW2ThJ
RT @RKHilbertSpace: "Avoid hiring unlucky people. Take half the applicant's resumes and throw them in the trash."
Not sure I agree 100%, but interesting: 9 Academic Freedoms Of Not Having Tenure bit.ly/A8g7vg
"most would be wise to consider deferring college until they're eager to learn and can afford it" http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2012...
CSharpEWAH : Compressed bitmaps in C# https://t.co/jN1JZXd5
Doron Zeilberger speaks up on the Elsevier boycott: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilbe...
You can now "follow" a researcher on Google Scholar (look for "Follow new articles): http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
if this story is true then the US is a police state: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol... (via hacker news)
RT @Jose_A_Alonso: E.W. Dijkstra: If there is one scientific discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
RT @isaach: quite brilliant: "Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?" http://www.quora.com/Why-are... on @quora
Citogenesis in science and the importance of real problems http://lemire.me/blog...
How to revise research papers after receiving harsh reviews goo.gl/fb/xjDcN
How to revise a research papers after receiving harsh reviews http://lemire.me/blog...
Open access journals in Computer Science http://lemire.me/blog...
Read today:"Is the only reason we persist with journals and their articles is because they provide a convenient means to weigh the pig?"
Should you boycott academic publishers? http://lemire.me/blog...
When playing outside, my sons "click" on balls (and not kick). When a device fails, they say there is a "bug" even if it is a toaster.
Clay Shirky: Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I
would you still get a PhD if you had the chance to go back and do it over again? http://www.quora.com/Life-Ad...
Ooops. I have 4GB of RAM on this machine. Firefox was eating up over 2GB of my RAM with about 20 pages loaded. Where did the memory go?
MongoDB is shying away from map-reduce syntax (painful!) in favour of a SQLish "GROUP-BYish" syntax: http://blog.mongodb.org/post...
My next research proposal: Design an AI that can beat the top human players at Snakes and Ladders. /cc @GregLinden
Open science: why is it so hard? http://lemire.me/blog...
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