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Startup of the Day - Appature - Microsoft Startup of the Day

derek — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:36:47 GMT

Quoted: The company of the day is Appature, based in the US. Appature creates Enterprise Marketing Solutions tailored to the unique needs of the healthcare industry.

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Mariners Blog | No more advance scouts for M's | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog

derek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:17:20 GMT

Jack Zduriencik continues to get high marks from me. He definitely seems to have a plan.

Quoted: The idea is that the team will receive video of their opponents and have workers in the new department break down each pitch from a statistical viewpoint. They can grade the break on curve balls, tendencies to throw certain pitches in certain situations, figure out what hitters like to swing at, that sort of thing.

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GenderAnalyzer - Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman

derek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:08:35 GMT

We have strong indicators that http://derekslager.com/blog/ is written by a man (93%).

Quoted: GenderAnalyzer uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier has been trained on 2000 blogs written by men and woman. In our lab it seems to works pretty well, we want to see how it performs on the web!

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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

derek — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:44:53 GMT

LOL ... prevent drunk emailing.

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Scaling Hadoop to 4000 nodes at Yahoo! (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)

derek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:42:03 GMT

In theory, this can do an hour's worth of work in one second. That is a lot of horsepower. Glad I'm not paying the power bill.

Quoted: • 4000 nodes
• 2 quad core Xeons @ 2.5ghz per node
• 4x1TB SATA disks per node
• 8G RAM per node
• 1 gigabit ethernet on each node
• 40 nodes per rack
• 4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
• Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_05-b13
• So that's well over 30,000 cores with nearly 16PB of raw disk!

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Howard Making “History” | FanGraphs Baseball

derek — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:50:10 GMT

Wow, no wonder I haven't heard Howard's name much this season.

Quoted: Nobody has ever hit 40+ home runs with a sub-.800 OPS.

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Stevey's Blog Rants: Done, and Gets Things Smart

derek — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:39:40 GMT

Some good comments on Joel's "Smart and Get Things Done" mantra.

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Codeulate. » Blog Archive » Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages

derek — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:13:46 GMT

This is a fact! Great post.

Quoted: Before I wrap up, I’d like to point out that if the title of this post sounds suspect to you, consider it a huge red flag. If the thought of switching editors doesn’t fill you with quite a bit of dread, what you’re using now is almost certainly underpowered, and you definitely haven’t customized it enough. If this is you, take a look at one of the editors I’ve been discussing here, and take the time to learn it–I promise it’s worth the trouble. Just, uh…choose carefully.

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20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

derek — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:28:25 GMT

Update to previous "fave" with broken link.

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perfection kills » Blog Archive » Prototype 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet

derek — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:55:41 GMT

Quoted: Perfection kills. Prototype javascript framework tutorials and examples, tips and tricks on modern front-end web development

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