Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Greenplum MapReduce - the Ubiquity of SQL with the Programming Model of MapReduce
Greenplum MapReduce enables programmers to run analytics against petabyte-scale datasets stored in and outside of the Greenplum Database. Greenplum MapReduce brings the benefits of a growing standard programming model to the reliability and familiarity of the relational database. The new capability expands the Greenplum Database to support MapReduce programs."
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Building home linux render cluster
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Jlog - Trac
100 lines of C that can parse any Protocol Buffer � Josh the Outspoken
FrontPage - Hadoop Wiki
Greenplum MapReduce - the Ubiquity of SQL with the Programming Model of MapReduce
Greenplum MapReduce enables programmers to run analytics against petabyte-scale datasets stored in and outside of the Greenplum Database. Greenplum MapReduce brings the benefits of a growing standard programming model to the reliability and familiarity of the relational database. The new capability expands the Greenplum Database to support MapReduce programs."
Gamasutra - Games Demystified: Portal
Monday, August 25, 2008
Unique Leds High Quality hard to find LED and LED products with fare shipping and everyday low pricing
New Horizons in Computer Control
"Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer, teeth into a keyboard - and tongue into the key that manipulates it all."
This certainly seems more promising than my idea of tongue-prints as a computer security device. Although once you're logged in, you would be ready to go!
Dimensions Home
A film for a wide audience!
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Background information on every chapter: see 'Details'.
Click on the image on the left to watch the trailer ! (turn your speakers on please).
Free download and you can watch the films online! (new!)
The film can also be ordered as a DVD."
Compendium of Lost Words
NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development: Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Dr. Dobb's Journal Indexes
"Twenty-One Years of Dr. Dobb's Journal Indexed
Dr. Dobb's Journal
Cumulative Subject and Author Indexes
1982 - August 2003"
Mark's Innovations in Quantum Computing
- Quantum Rendering: All images are rendered simultaneously. Observation collapses the state to the desired image.
- Quantum Sorting: All permutations are generated. Observing the array collapses it to the ordered stated.
SnarkyBytes � Make a Kindle USB Charger
Marginal Revolution: Walter Benjamin's tips for writing
I. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a stint, deny himself nothing that will not prejudice the next.
II. Talk about what you have written, by all means, but do not read from it while the work is in progress. Every gratification procured in this way will slacken your tempo. If this regime is followed, the growing desire to communicate will become in the end a motor for completion.
III. In your working conditions avoid everyday mediocrity. Semi-relaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading. On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If the latter sharpens the inner ear, the former acts as a touchstone for a diction ample enough to bury even the most wayward sounds.
IV. Avoid haphazard writing materials. A pedantic adherence to certain papers, pens, inks is beneficial. No luxury, but an abundance of these utensils is indispensable.
V. Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
VI. Keep your pen aloof from inspiration, which it will then attract with magnetic power. The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.
VII. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary honour requires that one break off only at an appointed moment (a mealtime, a meeting) or at the end of the work.
VIII. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written. Intuition will awaken in the process.
IX. Nulla dies sine linea -- but there may well be weeks.
X. Consider no work perfect over which you have not once sat from evening to broad daylight.
XI. Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.
XII. Stages of composition: idea -- style -- writing. The value of the fair copy is that in producing it you confine attention to calligraphy. The idea kills inspiration, style fetters the idea, writing pays off style.
XIII. The work is the death mask of its conception.
TCL/TK IN ANSYS - 异次元 - 网易博客
Saturday, August 23, 2008
mysqlgame
THRILL as you insert your very own row in the 'rows' table!
With careful selection of SQL queries, you will soon have three or even four-digit numbers in some of the fields in your row! Other queries may allow you to use those numbers to subtract numbers from rows entered by other players -- all while pushing the numbers in your own row even higher!
As you master the game, you may find that you have inserted not just one row into the game, but several!"
Game Theory in The Dark Knight: A Critical Review of the Opening Scene (Spoilers) - Mind Your Decisions
Friday, August 22, 2008
Cities of the world database donated by MaxMind.com | drupal.org
Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
"Finding Latitudes and Longitudes
The Geocoding Web Service allows you to find the specific latitude and longitude for an address. You can use this service to geocode your points in advance or forego it altogether with built-in geocoding in our AJAX and Flash APIs."
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Dijkstra award 2008 goes to ‘Sparse Partitions’ at Paper Trail
The citation does a much better job than I could of explaining the paper’s relevance. The general idea is that the authors show that there are efficient ways of constructing clustered representations of graphs that remain within a small factor of the original in terms of route lengths. Further, the authors show that this can be done in a distributed manner. This has lots (and lots) of potential applications - the typical example is for a compact routing scheme, where nodes can store smaller routing tables between clusters rather than between nodes."
btail - a bayesian log filter
So it filters out all of the routine stuff, but passes through anything important or out of the ordinary."
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Read any Web Document Directly in Google Docs - Similar to Gmail
If you find this Gmail feature handy, you’ll probably also enjoy using the 'Send to Google Docs' extension for Firefox."
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
10 mm diffused white LED
Panasonic CR 2032
ReSharper:: The Most Intelligent Add-In To Visual Studio 2008 - C# 3.0, LINQ, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XAML, build scripts. Best-of-breed tools for code analysis, code cleanup, code generation, and unit testing, plus multiple refactorings and code templates.
Amazon Web Services @ Amazon.com
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
ErrorKey - Search engine for Error codes and messages
Saturday, August 16, 2008
ego technique - How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991)� ...
Devil in the detail for would-be drivers | Autos | Reuters
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Comparison of different SQL implementations
Mutopia: Browse by instrument, composer or style
1420 pieces of music are now available."
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS
CLICK HERE to see a blog chronicling updates to the web page, starting July 25, 2008.
You can view my 'recording studio' here.
I have about 2500 more records to record, so I'll be adding more titles as time permits over the next hundred years or so."
Sunday, August 10, 2008
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Basic Summary
Saturday, August 09, 2008
43 Folders - Best of GTD
"1. Outcome-Based Thinking. Articulating in the most specific terms possible what a successful outcome looks like for any given use of your time. Or as I like to put it, “How will I know when I’m done with this?”
2. The Next Action. Knowing that you don’t need to track everything you could conceivably do about a Project; you just need to know the next physical action that would get you closer to completion.
3. The Review. Accepting that the heart of the Trusted System that lets you move through a day with a high tolerance for ambiguity is the knowledge that eventually everything you’re doing gets looked at once a week without fail."
Friday, August 08, 2008
Famous Programmers' School
"(an advertisement that appeared in the April 1982 issue of BYTE magazine, page 383)
Do you have a restless urge to program?
Do you want the instant respect that comes from being able to use technical terms that nobody understands?
Do you want to strike fear and loathing into the hearts of DP managers everywhere?
If so, then let the Famous Programmers' School lead you on . . .
into the world of professional computer programming."
Coding Horror: The Enduring Art of Computer Programming
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Pixar director proposes "whimsical" 60-foot artificial tree, three treehouses for Lafayette property - San Jose Mercury News
He and his wife bought 15 acres of secluded, vacant land in Lafayette and proposed a 60-foot-tall artificial oak tree with three treehouses. A suspension bridge would link them to a new house on the adjacent hill. An elevator would connect the house to a garage 25 feet below, burrowed 80 feet into the hillside."
Mike On Ads � Blog Archive � Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Napier's Bones: Quickly Multiply, Wooden Style
Consola Font
Consola Font
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BYTE.com > Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash
DAILY DANNY: New Crayons from Old One
How Buildings Learn - Uploaded by Stewart Brand Himself | Smashing Telly - the best full length free tv programs on the web, updated every day
Having been both an Architect of buildings and of software I agree with Brand’s point that “architects are not as alert as computer people” in being interested in his book. However, technology companies are much less alert about design than architecture firms are. Most software is engineered rather than designed, and the term designer often is reserved for people responsible for more superficial (in the literal rather than pejorative sense) UI tasks such as web designers."
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
MaxMind - GeoLite Country | Open Source IP Address to Country Database
Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research : Article : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Free Electronic Books Online
mozdev.org - reloadevery: index
Babble Rouser - Forbes.com
"Despite coups, corruption and kidnappings, cell phone maverick Denis O'Brien keeps pouring money into the world's poorest, most violent countries. His bet: Give phones to the masses and they'll fight your enemies for you.
Denis O'Brien professes not to understand why wall Streeters think his telecom business is risky. He says this while sitting in an office in Papua New Guinea that is protected by razor wire and a half-dozen guards carrying shotguns and pistols. O'Brien's Jamaica-headquartered company, Digicel Group, began offering cheap cell phone service recently in this Pacific hellhole. The murder rate in PNG is one of the highest in the world, corruption is rife, and the government recently threatened to seize 130 cell towers that O'Brien had erected at a cost of $120 million."
AnnualCreditReport
AnnualCreditReport.com is the official site to help consumers to obtain their free credit report."